Isn't that what IBM Watson is being used for now, having ruined Jeopardy? I personally would prefer a smart retriever over a computer to keep me compa...
95% of gender stuff is malarky Let's keep it simple: male, female, gay, straight. On the other hand, the confusion isn't altogether new: Masculine Wom...
Anarchists and marxist rioters on the one hand, and academic liberals on the other are quite distinct. For one, the number of the former are very smal...
I was writing in support of you when I said, "Makes perfectly good sense to me." I disagree with the sentiment "my country, right or wrong" because I ...
Makes perfectly good sense to me. There are numerous examples of patriots raking their country over the coals, being scathingly critical. And there ar...
A question: Was the USSR a fascist regime? It is is usually not labeled as fascist. It was, in someways, successfully multicultural. That is, Muslims ...
All true. But then, there are some fascists or crypto-fascists around. I'd label one of my brothers-in-law as one: he's extremely conservative; is a f...
Well, one of the methods of the academic liberals (AcLibs) is to exaggerate. Construing a racist joke as tantamount to lynching, or a sexist joke as r...
I'd like to limit the use of the term fascism. Full disclosure: I like the all-purpose slur "fascist" or "crypto-fascist" as much as the next leftist....
"I fell in love with my neighbors wife." These things happen in the real world. Sometimes we act and sometimes we do not. The strange things that happ...
transcendent |?tran(t)?send(?)nt| adjective beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience: the search for a transcendent lev...
True enough, I don't know for sure. Which is why I have come to the conclusion that talking about the divine is a waste of time. For believers worship...
No. The so-called "problem of evil" is clear enough: Men and women are capable of behaving very, very badly AND they do. We do not like to think of ou...
From an atheist POV, there is no "problem of evil". God, not existing, is not simultaneously all good and allowing evil to flourish. (There isn't any ...
That was one long survey to sit still for. What was it that you wanted me to notice about Elizabeth Warren's items in the survey? It didn't seem all t...
Of course it is hubris for believers to presume to understand the mind of god, but it really isn't all that much of a problem. Let me come at this fro...
I think it is too early to worry about that, because... 1) The mid-term elections are less than 2 years away, and the democrats need to worry about th...
I got it for cheap (hard bound) from AbeBooks.com. AbeBooks is an ordering service for used book stores all over. Thanks for the recommendation. I saw...
I'm not very familiar with Long. How did he "take over" the Louisiana Legislature? "Dictators" do a lot more than just attack people who disagree with...
What should cause more concern is a particular hothead appointing members to the court to divine contemporary moral principle from an 18th century doc...
What is Stalinesque about this? He was very forceful, doing a full-court press on behalf of his policies. Bear in mind, though, that he had the "oil t...
Trump has distinct tendencies toward demagoguery either as a matter of style or substance, or both. But... He didn't arrived at an 'unprepared' White ...
What do you mean, "There's no such thing as progress"? We have more ways than ever before to create messes that blow up in our faces. Once upon a time...
Right, well that fixing district boundaries only happens every 10 years, so it's a long-term strategy--and one the Democrats have not paid enough atte...
This IS important. The earlier Daley Democratic organization in Chicago was very good at delivering votes. This is done at the bottom, precinct level....
You worm! You stole the Revolutionary Re-Education Plans for the wealthiest 5%. Some of them won't be shipped off to labor camps. They will become mai...
Absolutely. But... can the leadership at the national level do that? It is as important for the Democrats (or any other party) to be active and vital ...
The electoral college has been in the Constitution since the getgo, and if you lose there, you lose the election, period. Whatever problems the electo...
I'm surprised about your first item -- not that they supported a Democrat, but that they made a nearly 2 million dollar donation to anyone. I wouldn't...
Oh, I don't think there is any doubt that Republicans are every bit as good at contempt as democrats, maybe even more so. There are strongly conservat...
Well, back in the scholastic days -- and before -- how many writers thought masturbation was an appropriate and healthful activity, and that exclusive...
As a personal code, your view is admirable that all punishment is senseless, or that it is both immoral and ineffective to rely on being unpleasant to...
I beg your pardon. I must have been hallucinating. "all punishment is senseless" is a totally interventionist statement suitable for law and order typ...
You take an extreme non-interventionist position. I agree, though to this extent: What deters most people from committing crime is a good childhood, a...
i live in a state that has not had the death penalty for a long time. I am opposed to the death penalty. However... It is one thing to be born, live o...
This must be the first mention of Myrtle Krebsbach (not Krebspark) in The Philosophy Forum. Myrtle is the wife of Florian Krebsbach. The Krebsbachs ar...
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