If I remember correctly, 16 year olds participated in the Catalan voting for independence. Was that true for the Brexit vote, or Scottish independence...
Whether the legislated age of consent or age of responsibility--somewhere between 16 and 18 and 21 for different purposes--matches biological brain de...
It isn't that people younger than 18 are "considered unable to think for themselves". Clearly many people younger than 18 or 17 or 16 can "think for t...
Well, in a sense there are quite a few socially conservative, fiscally liberal people in national office. Someone said a presidentiad or two ago, "We'...
I don't get what you see as 'attractive' in the exaggerated inward curve of the lower back. Granted, the normal spine is not ramrod straight, but ther...
You and Agustino are NEVER going to settle this business of transubstantiation. For one thing, Agustino is calling it a "mystical" experience. It migh...
There are calendars of fireMEN with a good deal less than their shirts on. The svelte fellow below is in the service d'incendie français. A good looki...
I asked this question earlier, but no one saw fit to respond, as usual. Why isn't it kosher to make chicken with a milk sauce, since chickens don't fe...
Me to Jesuit priest friend: "Bertrand Russell says that people who believe in transubstantiation are ready to believe in anything." Jesuit priest frie...
Yes, very true. The evangelical black churches rose to the occasion in the late 1950s and 1960s when the fight was for racial justice. They distinguis...
A stiff prick has no ethics. Ahhh, she's into uniforms. Soldiers, firemen, cops sailors, probably the UPS delivery guy... Are boots part of it? Into b...
In the United States, European democratic socialism is viewed as one of the fire-breathing dragons of communism -- by the religious right and entrepre...
...and your emphasis on entrepreneurial effort as the way to better one's self (might be 100% true, but doesn't point leftward). — No one would take y...
There are two themes in your writing that do not point left: your religious views are conservative (and the fact that you have strong religious views,...
I enjoy watching people squabble as much as the next guy, but we should really try to keep a lid on it -- for the good of the forum. I would not make ...
Why should anyone here care enough what anyone else's work ethic is here? Supposing someone's work ethic isn't up to high Protestant Work Ethic standa...
maybe this is what is happening here? Some people's minds are hungry, so they go prowling about the forum, like a hungry lion... https://78.media.tumb...
Here's a picture of Arthur Herman. He appears to be excessively happy. Call him up before the Senate Subcommittee on Suspicious Activities and find ou...
Haven't read it, sounds like a good book. Civilizations rise and fall, for sure, but "Western Civilization" appears to be going strong, and many of it...
Odd how many books he wrote like "How the Scots Invented the Modern World" or "How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World" and "Freedom's Forge: How...
et al This poor root is getting pulled up to see how well it's doing too often for it to be do as well as it might. There must be posts for the mods t...
Making you a mod might be their perfect revenge? One of the things the management of this outfit probably keeps in mind -- they should anyway -- is tr...
Beginning with birds is a weird way to argue for theism, but I guess the analogy works well enough: We are to birds as God is to us I don't know what ...
Darwin thought beauty was a critical piece of natural selection, along with fitness. Birds prefer--choose--beauty in their mates, he thought. A male c...
"Apologist for rape" is the sort of ideological slander that should not be allowed. Such statements should be deleted. Now that she is a mod, she can ...
I don't think it's very mysterious. Timeline is an intelligent sophisticated person. She asks to be a mod. She's female. You've probably noticed that ...
cheeses sliced, Just how big a batch of apple crumble was she making? Here, Wosret: this just takes 1 apple. 1 cup of flour 1 1/2 t of baking powder 1...
IF we are speaking in the broader context of culture, it would seem like somethings that are lost, are really and truly lost. Some things that are los...
I'm no fan of Donald Trump -- wasn't from the get go. I don't think any of his policy or program actions have been positive. His public persona is tha...
The professor said the ancient Greeks thought that a big penis was comic--Wikipedia says 'grotesque'. Of course, this insight is based on damned littl...
Everyone's diagnosis of Trump is that he is a narcissist -- a diagnosis with which I concur. He's pretty much a narcissistic liar/thief/knave/scoundre...
Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola are quality products. Yes, they have sugar in them, but where in the advertising or on the cans does it say that one should d...
In another good quote, Churchill said "Americans will do the right thing after they have tried everything else". According to Quote Investigator, the ...
That's because there are no details. I would have to reread the Gospels again (and try to do so in a "de novo" frame of mind), but it doesn't seem to ...
The Sex Panic has arrived. We have a prominent cause célèbre here in Minnesota. Garrison Keillor, the Prairie Home Companion himself, has been publicl...
Oh come on! Rotting in the ground and becoming skunk cabbage isn't reincarnation -- its recycling. Reincarnation would seem to be precluded by the Chr...
Christianity has plenty to answer for, no doubt. But let's be fair: religion isn't the only player in determining the shape of our contradictions. Soc...
Whether the landscape is thrilling or depressing probably has something to do with the immediate task at hand. If one has to move people and their bur...
Well, I don't have reams of data at my finger tips, either. But... Logic tells us, does it not, that if customers, workers, managers, and shareholders...
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