"Herd immunity" would certainly apply at 94%. By and large, the "herd" is protected. If the 6% get sick, that could be a significant--even dangerous--...
One should be familiar enough with superstitious nonsense to call out a sample of the details of its nonsensicality. I don't need to read a book on as...
Absolutely no equipment, right. Except our philosophy discussions require a computer of some sort; a wifi system, telephone system, cable system, or f...
Right. A specific photon doesn't travel from a light source to your eyeball directly, unless you and the light source are in the same vacuum with no b...
Like we could end the world drug trade by buying out cannabis, opium, and cocaine farmers, and closing down all the factories that make the precursors...
It seems to me that Kurt Vonnegut wrote a story satirizing this. (OK, here I did a Google: it was "Harrison Bergeron", published in a sci fi magazine ...
If one faces a forced choice, then I suppose--yes, a half & half black-white person would be sorted into the black group. But people are not always in...
Dear God. Ok, you have a liberal/leftist picnic basket full of sour tomatoes, bitter melon, rancid olives, spoiled meat, and other delicacies. Some of...
Haven't read the book so I can neither praise nor criticize it. But perhaps your source of knowledge about self-flagellating white guilt should come f...
Could you briefly explain what you mean by "liberalism"? I'm putting you on the spot, but not uncharitably. You said "adulthood" and "liberalism" aren...
dukkha isn't responding. Mission control, fire the mission abort bomb. He must be dead or unresponsive. Might as well blow up the capsule. I want to g...
all the light striking objects outside your window is reflected and then propagated through the your window with more or less fidelity. Never mind whe...
Why do you think this? Are you unfamiliar with any of the physics facts of life that darthbarracuda pointed out? Here is an explanation you might find...
Don't want to get vaccinated? Fine. Here is what you may get: The WHO lists 25 diseases for which vaccines are available: Anthrax Measles Rubella Chol...
The government has a vital stake in protecting the health of the citizenry. It fulfills a responsibility to promote public health by providing disease...
Sometimes the government has to protect people who are too stupid or pig headed to protect themselves. https://www.vaccines.gov/images/measles.jpg The...
He's still Senator and has two years left. He's 75; he might be willing to run again as Senator -- I don't think 79 year olds make good presidents bec...
Because the Clinton campaign and the rules of the Democratic Party (like the use of super delegates) prevented him from winning. May I join you in a h...
If the OED and Google Ngram are at all accurate, then nobody though of themselves as "white" until January 1, 1800. They thought they were Swedish, We...
When People say: I am Han Chinese I am North African I am Native American I am European I am South American I am Arabian I am Russian I am Norwegian I...
This is an extremely tendentious usage. One has to go out of one's way to think that more than a handful of your friends use "white" in that way. When...
being nagged for lists of harms Next time let's all do 5 syllables antinatalist haikus, 7 syllables schopenhauer 2. 5 syllables Internet troll holes H...
Various European groups did not colonize other peoples to prove that they were better than colored people. They colonized other people because it was ...
It seems to me (provincial that I am) that actual races do exist side by side with race-used-as-a-vehicle-to-suppress-those-groups-and-elevate-these-g...
There was an interesting lecture from the BBC Reith Lectures series on the radio -- something like 3:00 in the morning in the US. Don't remember who w...
This is true, but I would add especially in the context of radical change. The radical change in Anglo-American culture was the rise of abolition, the...
I've been reading that "white" as a racial term has a short history for a couple of decades now, and hadn't checked any references. I did a quick (sep...
No, I haven't read either of those books (could've, should've, would've). Why do you ask? Did I inadvertently step on a sore toe? (I do know something...
Or consider the long history of ethnic conflicts in Palestine which is even smaller and littler. Jews, Arabs, Palestinians, Samaritans, Judeans, Israe...
Who has some specific references for when the categories of 'white', 'black', 'yellow', and 'red' were constructed and became common? Also, when were ...
According to the Guardian, "Neither she nor her campaign seemed to foresee that American voters would resoundingly reject a plea to hold on to unity i...
Poorly functioning systems of government are all bad. An efficiently run and relatively humane dictatorship beats a scatter-brained and cruel dictator...
Dumb may be the new smart but I'll stand by what I said. Redistricting is a critical process, because it enables the party in power to tailor district...
Yes. And people reading the polls (like me) need to be more careful. For instance, many of the polls I read have a "margin of error" of say, 3%. That ...
Unhappy people need to look at the means by which the Republican party engineered its victory. It wasn't just a bunch of whackos voting for Trump. 4 o...
On the evening of Obama's election my partner and I walked around the neighborhood a bit; we talked to a few people who, like us, were elated. Obama's...
Lines from Elvis Perkins - Doomsday And though you voted for that awful man I would never refuse your hand On Doomsday, on Doomsday Now in all my wild...
The New York Times missed the boat, that's for sure. they've been predicting a Clinton win by wide margins. Well, I've been disappointed before: Nixon...
One should have voted -- there were candidates to vote for down ballot, and there were a couple of 3rd party candidates that one could vote for, and m...
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