As I explained: Roundup is used on crops because the crops are GMO-immune to the herbicide. ("glyphosate inhibits a key enzyme found only in plants an...
That expectation is recent, but women working in jobs as much as men was conditioned by marital status, class, geography, demographics, economics, and...
One of the terms you might find useful here is "externalized costs". Manufacturing steel in a plant that emits tremendous amounts of pollution is chea...
Gut flora is an ecological system. Humans and agriculture are a part of many different ecological systems. Harming one part of ecological systems can ...
This is a universal problem for zoos, national parks, books, web sites, grocery stores, schools, recycling bins, used furniture stores, museums, bouti...
The perfect has quite often driven out the considerably better. Alas. I can't remember how I got there (a link from somewhere in my regular reading) b...
Nixon was not all bad. True enough, he did get the EPA going; he did establish diplomatic relations with China; he was in favor of treatment rather th...
Depressing, indeed. There was strong opposition to social welfare legislation from the beginning. Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, welfare, Me...
Of course it would depend on what we mean by "development". Here's two examples: Land-O-Lakes, headquartered in Minnesota, has a dairy promotion proje...
The Marshall Plan spent $132 billion 2017 dollars between 1948 and 1952 to rebuild European economies after WWII. The United Kingdom received about 26...
He was let in because the body politic has been degraded to the point where large numbers of people can no longer tell shit from shoe polish. This did...
There is much to like about the Amish, but their goal isn't to be independent of the economy. They buy and sell, but they want to keep their distance ...
Maybe it's all getting stuck in your big hair? Less hair, less flack? This happens every year. It's been happening for a long time. Woolworths used to...
My understanding (might be mistaken) was that Hitler took over the tiny National Socialist Party in... 1922, +/-. There were some socialist elements i...
The economies of the EU, China, Japan, Brazil, South Korea, and the US would be in trouble if consumption fell 10%, let alone 50%. One element of the ...
I agree. I am not informed about what the "best practices" to achieve the least harm to the individual and the collective society. "Least restrictive"...
It isn't fair, if psychopathy is a real disorder that prevents people from behaving normally, within the constraints of society. I think it is a real ...
The answer to your question is: "It depends". "Mental illness" is an exceedingly broad term. Someone who is moderately depressed and someone else who ...
It is this crazy quite often. Just different issues, different personalities, different tactics. The transgenderism movement, which began with fairly ...
Totally. But I think there are more than a handful of issues which men need to talk about -- for their own good, the good of women, and society as a w...
It seems to me that female genital circumcision and related practices like disinfibulation of the vaginal opening, are worse than male circumcision. T...
Whether we should blame third wave feminism, post modernism, identity politics, exhibitionists on talk shows, or something else, we seem to have lost ...
Flannery O'Connor said of Ayn Rand, "I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re ...
A psychology prof said, "The Germans think everybody is the same, while the French think everybody is different. I think people are pretty much all al...
My guess is that a lot of the guys who are shot, and maybe some of the women, and none of the children, were engaged in activities that increase the l...
What do you mean, "innocent" or "nice"? I didn't find clear statistics just now on "innocent victims". When in 1 year you have 3000+ injured by guns, ...
I know what lemon essence is, I don't know what an "essence of man" would be. Whatever it is, the existentialists say existence precedes essence". If ...
The moderators move misplaced topics into the correct category. It isn't terribly important what box you put your topic in, as all new and recently ac...
Yes, this is a serious problem, but we don't have any effective therapy for psychopathy; I'm not aware how effective therapy for ASPD would be, if the...
I like Christina Rossetti's way of putting it: In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had f...
Were I running the coup d'etat, I would recommend that the troops NOT fight it out with the citizenry on a block by block basis. There are much simple...
So, if I agree with you that the founding fathers wanted an armed citizenry, provided the citizenry wished to be armed, can you see the sense in placi...
A most helpful list of quotes. These strike me as more compelling, when one wants to defer to authority, than the Second Amendment. Tiff probably has ...
EDITED Guns were needed for hunting and protection of livestock from wolves, foxes, etc. Guns were needed for the defense of or attacks on people -- b...
It would have been a fad if there wasn't actual evidence. As it happens, there is. I'll explain, but just to make it clear, I'm not arguing in favor o...
You passed over my serious post about the NRA to bite the joke bait. The point I was making was that THIS discussion is but one of many that result fr...
Surely we could use 18th century cannons, then -- a well regulated militia would have a few of those on hand. They weren't very precise, but a 2 inch ...
The debate about gun rights has a history. Guns are nothing new in the United States; many of us grew up in regions where hunting was common and lots ...
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