Writing graceful accessible prose is hard work. It's easier to sling cant and jargon. Yes, some people try too hard to sound erudite. They use too man...
Good. But life has been difficult for all classes of people for a very long time (except the small number of most pampered persons). People at all sor...
Yes, I read that in the shout box, or wherever you posted it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The Brexit situation reminds me of Prohibition: the people who ...
There is a very long tradition of dismissing the common man as too stupid to tie his own shoes. The elite of Britain could not cast enough aspersion o...
I presume that the people who are going to do the implementation are a relatively small number of bureaucrats. It doesn't make any difference what the...
I think what is beyond the capacity of the electorate to understand and manage is being presented with several confused, partially true and partially ...
Funny. Did you make that up just now? You are, of course, exaggerating and have crucified a scarecrow on which you fastened a sign, "King of the Pothe...
Yes, it's arbitrary. "a life" clearly begins at conception but the time at which the fetus becomes a person is arbitrary. If you want to place it at c...
My predilections have been leftist for a long time, and I have always argued that it's a woman's right to choose what happens to her own body. If she ...
In Deuteronomy 14:26 and other places, Gawd acknowledged that people weren't always able to get to Jerusalem to celebrate holy days at the Temple. In ...
There is a readily detectible difference between a buzz, euphoria, and stupor. Alcohol is addictive, and does cause a lot of misery and death. I suspe...
Vodka is an uncolored alcohol product. It's relatively simple. Consider brandy, whiskey, bourbon, cordials... These products are aged in oak barrels--...
Why on earth would anyone wait until the weekend to knock knock knock on Heaven's Door when glory can be had with a few bottles of beer or a few ounce...
Well, J. D. Jr. did not live in exactly the same world that J. D. Sr. did. For one thing, the regulatory environment his father worked in during the 1...
You might be interested in reading about his son. Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center by Daniel Okrent. It's about John D. Rockefeller Junio...
The ruling class (essentially made up of the very wealthy) have "class consciousness" and consequently they recognize their common interests. They are...
Oh sure... but it was supposed to start in the middle, not at the beginning. That's why I took it off. There's a bunch of Carlin on YouTube. I used to...
One has to desire riches, to start with. Honestly, I didn't. Besides that, I have rarely if ever recognized a good business opportunity even if I trip...
Which video? If you are asking whether McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Pizza Hut get together to decide how to divide up the fast food market, ...
Right. I don't think either the Treasury Department, Housing and Urban Development, or any other agency "FORCED" banks to make loans to people who cou...
The way I read it this is what happened to the economy over the last 46 years, 1970-to the present: The pent-up demand for housing, education, and job...
The only Trump building I have seen, Trump Tower in Chicago, is a very large, and quite satisfying building, at least on the outside. (Didn't get the ...
No it is not. The pie has gotten bigger, and a very large number of people have discovered that their share of the pie is zero. FREE MARKETS are a fet...
I don't think the rank and file of The People have necessarily moved to the right. Those who were on the political right 10, 20 years ago are still th...
There are plenty of very "visible hands" pulling the levers and turning the knobs of the economy without us worrying about the mysterious invisible on...
AI, automation, and mechanization of work has already arrived (in places, certain industries, certain jobs, etc.) and does indeed pose significant cha...
Well, what exactly has Trump done that proves him to be a really swell guy to be President? He's succeeded in show business. No small deal, most peopl...
Trump is here following Martin Luther's counsel, at least half way: "Be a sinner and sin?? boldly..." Old Trump grabs 'em by the gonads in ever so man...
There is some precedence for preferring the definite action over the squishy, wishy-washy. Revelations 3:16 I wish you were cold or hot. Because you a...
In the spirit of Zoroastrian charity, let me say how glad I am that you can now come out from the shadows, come up from the underground, come in from ...
Put that woman in as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting, Education Department, etc. and we'...
Chore or bore, artful or martyrdom, every body has to eat. There are, basically, 3 ways of feeding yourself: Get it raw and cook it; get it pre-cooked...
Mercy, mercy, Mary. I suppose I do have a thing about Social Justice Warriors. I used to be an earlier version. I was up on all this stuff, and not cy...
One deficiency in Hanover's statement is that we don't know most people (like, 99.9%) well enough to actually hate them. They are abstractions, so it ...
The "golden rule" is called "golden" for a reason. Rabbi Hillel died in about 10 CE. His teaching may have influenced Jesus. Besides that, everybody k...
Ask Tibetans or Uighurs how well multiculturalism works in China. Australia? Australia has been quite choosy about who is admitted as immigrants. How ...
Hester Eggcart sounds like a "a Cockney rhyme" or something -- probably something, and not a Cockney rhyme. Like one can write a monolog studded with ...
Earth Abides is a 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer George R. Stewart. 99.9% of the earth's population die very quickly f...
So, make the most of your toe, then. Look, it's getting late, it's been a long day. It's time for me to brush my meaningless teeth and go to bed. I've...
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