Great. So you get that part. "Management of the mind" is a critical part of finding interest, meaning, or bliss in life. It is quite possible to think...
Of course governments, as deliberative, law/regulation/rule making, data-gathering, society managing agencies, have a negative view of drugs. Agents w...
What you are expected to do, and most likely what you can, you must, you shall, and you will do (after you get it over with) is find a job; inhabit ho...
Had they stayed on anti-psychotics, maybe many of the victims would still be alive. Actually, I don't know how many mass shooters were or were not on ...
@"Hanover" What about a white male chicken? https://as1.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/01/59/10/78/1000_F_159107890_vNLNfSWCZKaPbcIshox7dKFV6d1SiGwT.jpg AKA, White ...
Beauty is certainly a good thing, whether it is manifested in. person, a horse, a building, a forest, or the Milky Way. It is not the same thing or eq...
It's good to bring these issues to the fore, not because we hand-wringing Cassandras need more reason for anxious predictions of doom, but because the...
. I don't like it. First, $3 million in subsidy smells like a city council desperate to get some sort of development project going, We don't know how ...
It's a very good question, "Why are drug so popular?" I did not use drugs very often during the 1960s and 70s; I did not try mescaline when the rest o...
If you get a stone in your shoe, you will remove it right away because it is immediately too uncomfortable. If you can get water somewhere, even if it...
A similar phenomenon has been taking place around cities like Nairobi, Kenya. Kenyans who can no longer make a living as marginal farmers move to an u...
I don't know. Why aren't people nice to each other? Much of Africa, Latin America, and Asia have both water supply and potability problems. Solving th...
Randomly responding. I know almost nothing about Mexico City's water problems or politics, which is no obstacle for offering an opinion on the matter....
More like YouTube's vinyl collection; I first heard the song on the Prairie Home Companion. There is, though, a pile of titles, jokes, and quotes wait...
Worse than Milwaukee? Lord. Though the UK is having problems for sure, thanks to Brexit. According to a 50+ year old National Lampoon thought piece, D...
The State of Minnesota, which prides itself on efficient and effective administration, was defrauded of nearly $250,000,000 (a quarter billion) by a g...
An excellent question! We haven't reached the point yet where machines perform all of the labor necessary to meet human needs. We have, however, passe...
An evolutionary aspect is that males in many species have lower reproduction costs than females. Caring for offspring may require many months of effor...
Developing inoculation and a vaccine for a major infectious disease killer was a very good thing. Also very good were public health strategies which d...
The soviet experience of communism, such as it was, was no more an 'experiment' than our 'experiment' in democracy, such as it is. Which is to say, th...
"Freedom", like Truth, Goodness, Evil, Beauty, etc. is one of those grand concepts that are often deployed but damned hard to pin down. In a world whe...
You are underestimating sensory data. If you are relaxing at the beach, eyes closed, listening to the waves, day dreaming... and somebody dumps a buck...
This film depicts the scene and the characters from the book the way I imagined it. Always a plus. Dogs seem to be able to suppress desires -- like no...
What a relief! There is nothing wrong with your eyeballs -- the problem is behind them. Riffing on @"punos"... There is such a thing as muscle memory....
We exist within a simulation, and as it happens the software has developed glitches. There is nothing the occupants of a simulation can do about the s...
Oppenheimer is worth seeing. It helps if you are familiar with the history of the atomic bomb--also a fascinating story. Richard Rhodes History of the...
In perusing entries about leg coverings, I found that the similarities cast as differences among pants, trousers, breeches, jeans, etc. are vexatious....
Given the wholesale slaughter caused by trolleys, banning them is way overdue. Also ban fat people, bridges over trolleys, and switches. If there are ...
I was not as monogamous as heterosexual-male/female couples are supposed or alleged to be. My impression is that lesbians are generally not as promisc...
"Straight men aren't promiscuous like gay men because straight women don't let them." she said. Women, families, mortgages, careers, churches, etc. al...
Theater pigs, obviously. They're glumly thinking, "Another opening, show..." Another job that you hope, at last, Will make your future forget your pas...
a line in the link says, "The data presented by the authors offers empirical endorsement of the idea that family law provides a potent tool for affect...
I don't think I've ever encountered poison sumac, poison oak, or poison ivy -- or if I did I was unreactive. I used to spend a lot of time in the wood...
Canned artichoke hearts are not sufficiently well known. Sumac. It grows wild around here, and in the summer the blossoms turn into thick clusters of ...
I am less willing to be patient with slipshod artists than I used to be. Compare these two items by William de Kooning and Louise Nevelson. Both were ...
The way television works (and not just television) is that the real product is access to the audience's eyeballs, for which advertisers pay what they ...
I don't think he was declaring all urinals to be art. I don't think his particular urinal is art, and I don't believe that calling something "art" mak...
I don't know about the "ought" part, but we can apply objective criteria to art if we wish. A program like American Idol involves way too much hype. I...
A long time ago, in TV land, anyway, Marcel Duchamp was involved in the creation of an anti-rational, anti-art, proto-Dada cultural movement in New Yo...
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