Here's a picture of Donald Tusk whispering into Theresa May's ear, “The only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s cock holster.” htt...
Yes, but Charles Keating gave St. Teresa a helicopter (I read that in Hitchens' book, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice). ...
Not much is going to happen this November because it's an off year. The only elections will be for state (some) and local (more) officials. Now, if so...
The limiting factor on oil production (which produces peak oil) is that at some point, the energy required to extract oil exceeds the energy available...
"The world" will not literally come to an end, unless a black hole stops by and vacuums it up before moving on to more pressing business. Homo sapiens...
I heard about this when I was taking some yoga classes back in the 1980s. This article offered more information that I heard at class. Do you know whe...
I read in the paper the other day that we have passed peak sand. Peak sand? Well, we've mixed a lot of concrete over the years, and only certain sands...
Wikipedia, of course. It does come to mind, of course. H bombs is what I think of for "bang". I remember reading this in 12th grade English class, I w...
On the one hand, continual growth is necessary IF high-quality standards of living are going to be maintained, and IF low-quality standards of living ...
If you were a Second Generation Star Trek fan, then Q would be a good cat name. Not that it makes much difference what a cat is called. "Gray Cat" is ...
I'm a little fuzzy about this... plutonium is produced in a uranium reactor, right? then the plutonium is chemically separated from the uranium--corre...
I rather like apocalypse novels; the great plague that leaves all but a few dead (Earth Abides); the nuclear war that kills everyone off (On The Beach...
There do not seem to be any English words with two 'j's, except arabic terrorist borrowings which we are sensibly not allowing into the language at th...
Like what? North Korea isn't an island nation a thousand miles from anyone else; it butts up against China and Russia, is across the DMZ from Seoul, (...
Hardly. Regional wars have been going on continuously since the beginning of the atomic era. It isn't obsolescence that has prevented nuclear war from...
Are you sure they are copying technology? Their missile development is pretty slow and steady for working from specs. They probably did get some basic...
I don't really know what the insular North Korean regime wants. I am certain that the collapse of the Soviet Union provided no window of opportunity b...
Of course the command to treat others as you would have them treat you is a superior moral prescription. However, it applies to individuals. When peop...
One small difference between the atomic testing of the 1940s through the signing of the atmospheric test ban treaty and a nuclear war involving a "rel...
But "Executrix" doesn't have a double x (like Exxon) (though its a great invented word). And there isn't much reason for a word to have two -- what, x...
Market forces do not have an agenda; they are as likely to bring booms and expansion as busts and recession. Whether "the rising tide of a growing eco...
supposedly there are 55 "ii" words, but most of them were extremely obscure. I recognized bacchii, (the female bacchante -- worshipers of Dionysus (or...
Not all that much. Just that egalitarian ideals are honored more often in the breach than in the observance, and that while most of us whites wouldn't...
Back in the '50s and 60's, when the landmark civil rights court decisions and laws were passed, the south was pretty much conservative Democratic -- a...
You probably do accept answers, but perhaps you are the sort of person who can entertain all possible -- or no possible -- answers, and be content. On...
I don't know... do we really live in an egalitarian society? Maybe that is not true. Are you sure it is really morally wrong to discriminate against p...
If some people were superior, it would make sense for them to be supremacist, wouldn't it? Well, how many black people do you know as well as you know...
You should provide some sort of evidence for a claim like that. I'm not sure, just off hand, whether Hanover has, actually, been funnier. Maybe a poll...
When I say, "It would appear that might does make right" that should not be taken as an endorsement. I heartily disapprove of "Might Makes Right" thin...
Fair trade, not free trade. Nos vies pas leurs profits. Our lives, not your profits. (Votez Philippe Poutou NPA New Anticapitalist Party - France). ?(...
Of course it was not just. However... The Nazis, born into a nation noted for its thorough systematic methods, were careful to establish a judicial co...
Really? No racism anywhere except that started by Christianity? How did Christianity do that? Are there any other factors in Western Civ that might ha...
"The living will envy the dead." Even a limited nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States, or Pakistan and India, or Iran and Israel--let ...
Who are these religious who granted the colonists the right to treat blacks and natives as subhuman? Good Christians didn't need permission to engage ...
I won't take anything away from any of the leaders and marchers who strove mightily to overcome southern resistance to the legitimate demands of very ...
To whom were they unjust? The owners of slaves? No. The slaves? Since when do slaves have rights? Slavery is just if the slave society defines it as j...
True, society could not exist without at least minimal cooperation among the members. But that is neither right or wrong: it's just a requirement. Coh...
When was it the case that might was not in a position to define what is right? At least since Machiavelli's time and earlier, several mighty groups ha...
Lunatics end up in power because sometimes only crazy people can stand to do what it takes to get to the top. If only the psychopaths survive the stru...
Nations seek to maximize their interests and advantages. As we have seen, pursuing security, dominance, favorable trade agreements, access to resource...
How's your French, Hanover? Simplicitude is French for simplicity. Charlie est l'auteur de plusieurs chansons qu'il a interprétées et chantées au sein...
Life was devalued when "they" decided to build devices of mass destruction, be that means an extermination facility (Sobibor, Auschwitz...) chemical/b...
For a good read, try Richard Rhodes?' The Making of the Atomic Bomb. If you have any interest in industrial history (and making the atomic bomb requir...
At least where Germans could get their hands on them, Jewish atomic scientists went to the gas chambers along with everybody else. Prior to WWII (whic...
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