What's ethnocentric about it? We may not live in a strict meritocracy, but most employers/managers have a reasonably good idea of what excellent perfo...
Sig Heil, Heil, mein Führer, and all that. As for you mein kleiner Führer... Wir haben Wege you might not like so much. For one, no Saint Nicholas swa...
Oh, great wise brilliant and authoritative leader, you failed to provide a check box to signal that we irrelevant, worthless, and pale worms had read,...
THIS https://78.media.tumblr.com/b8e675508c14dbbf4cad4fc9511f5b98/tumblr_p097cjDl6F1s4quuao1_540.jpg OR THIS https://78.media.tumblr.com/2e7f5268a0611...
I've spent 70 years in the more or less flat midwest. A dramatic feature is the 500 foot deep Mississippi gorge, or maybe a large limestone rock quarr...
It would be, except that I don't think most people are so obsessed. Most people seem like they are just trying to get through the day, their life, wit...
I guess I overlooked Meshuggah, somehow. "Meshuggah" means crazy in Yiddish. Maybe you could figure out how to adapt Meshuggah (the band) to Lutheran ...
This is an important question that everyone has to decide how to answer: Are we collectively good, individually good, or collectively and individually...
It would help if we included "ethnicity" and culture, not just race and culture. There is a genetic relationship (not overwhelming, but detectable) be...
I suppose it depends on how few the few are, and what is considered "ideas". True, most people... 80%? 90%? do not work with all-caps "ideas", big ide...
Assault or a sign of love? Consent granted? https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RId_3k9twgw/Wh1FDmdZ-eI/AAAAAAABWhQ/c5NLmNCmNgkxviVIIoX3LQXWlbmRIWQXQCLcBGAs/s1...
Of course, one has to wonder about the hoi polloi at times. But then, one has to wonder about the corps d'elite too, quite often. The latter are capab...
If philosophers, critical thinkers and "logic officers" are so smart, how come they haven't figured out how to become more influential in society? So,...
One unconscious princess or another -- they're all somewhere on the Glasgow Coma Scale. How about the fairy tale where the witch turned the children i...
The jack boots coming to suppress your favorite children's stories . http://78.media.tumblr.com/5da917771da2849ae3f8aa583f0fd8ad/tumblr_mv873tdlkB1s27...
I assume you are making a joke at the expense of the absurd literalism displayed in the story to which you linked. One can only hope that you don't sh...
TPF moderators and admins must be kept away from children's literature at all costs. Actually, Michael, the story is worse than you think, and in the ...
Ask Agustino, but I am also pretty sure he lives in Eastern Europe--whether an EU country, don't know. He really should live in the US, since so many ...
And why does it undermine everything else for you? What is your problem? And what is the matter with using "white"? The last time I checked, "white" w...
At the not inconsiderable risk of being warned and being banned, I would like to say a word on behalf of "race". "Race" is genetic. I do not "happen t...
The dictionary from which Google defines words (it's not attested--but it appears to be the Oxford-UK version) says: The Merriam Webster on-line versi...
"Hard Talk" is one of my favorite BBC World Service features. It comes on about 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. in the central time zone, but thanks to insomnia I a...
There are several assumptions that can be challenged. a. That individual's decisions will be honest, the government bureaucrat is often corrupt. Indiv...
People will claim that individual identities are socially constructed, true enough, but their claim doesn't make it a fact. I think that in the long r...
And stupid me didn't notice that this thread was a month old. Just dove in, Didn't remember I had been here before, either. I should probably go to be...
I gather you have some mental health problems. You also have some moral problems. Encouraging mass murder and/or mass murder-suicide, is likely to lea...
Yes, we should. We should because individual human beings are the only creatures that have sufficient moral reasoning capacity to do good, and not coi...
Vasectomies, IUDs, long term birth control implants, diaphragms, abortion, and ordinary pills and condoms all help reduce the population growth rate. ...
Relax. Xander doesn't have the means. The several nuclear powers, however, do have the means and periodically threaten to use those means, which would...
You can entertain whatever moral scheme you want, of course, but since you have expressed in openly here, I am free to criticize it. In your statement...
No, turkey wings are too scrawny to bother cooking over high heat. Throw them in a pot of water (sort of like horse shoes. one at a time) and low boil...
Merciful God. But TimeLine, I don't think Agustino did misunderstand what you said. Sometimes several people on the forum (not just you) have had diff...
Just a minute, just a minute. You said you were going to get your insults from Shakespeare, but it appears you are also dipping into Margaret Atwood (...
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