Defensiveness, Pessimism, Materialism, and Frivolity seem more like features of individuals than societies, and in any case, don't seem to have any ob...
Agustino, I can't say with certainty that The Willow... has precisely described your overt beliefs in the quoted statement, but I think he has put his...
OK, I'll check this article out -- but it is a fairly long article, I'm heading off to a funeral right now (just ushering -- never met the man) and I ...
The last Osman was encouraged by the Young Turks to spend as much time in his harem as possible. Why? To keep him busy and out of the way. When the ti...
If sexual debauchery didn't collapse the Roman Empire, what did? 1. effective military resistance and offensives by various peoples on the borders of ...
Some people like diet no-caffeine Pepsi. It is clearly not good for people because it contains no nutrients (other than water). Carbonated water is ha...
Actually I do know the difference between "it's" and "its". I aim for perfection but sometimes I miss. It's my fingers' fault -- they have a somewhat ...
Revolution activity is, presumably, different than terrorist activity. A revolutionary activity might involve calling in the police of a given city an...
If society is no longer properly punishing people who break the law (and by this I mean the right people with the right kind of punishment) it is prob...
I'll focus on what we agree on here. Yes. In developed countries, there are several means available to prevent unwanted pregnancy before the pregnancy...
Whether delusions are necessary for happiness, and whether depressed people are more accurate and honest in their perceptions, not sure. Probably some...
Thanks for bringing this text and sub-text to the fore. The text -- how the oligarchic pigs are protecting their piles of plunder -- is important. The...
The Public Editor of the New York Times thought it was amiss that the Times did not produce anything of their own until last evening. There was not mu...
My first paragraph was misleading; my fault. We can set up this regression, but it is impossible to prove -- there is no way of knowing all the events...
We can set up a regression where the actions of this moment were determined by the conditions of the immediate prior moment, and so on. How far into t...
I have not lived a life of "privilege" at all. Good luck, yes; bad luck, yes. No privileges. None not all, the things I described always come in the '...
/uploads/files/zc/zn9qko44r7r92ovr.gif In a normal distribution from heroism to depravity, only a few people will find themselves at the tail ends--Sa...
For suffering I was thinking of something considerably worse than spoiled cupcakes or bitchy tasks like filling up one's gas tank. I was thinking of c...
Why isn't P4 a tautology? How does one prove ? It seems like that life as an end in itself can be asserted, and then one has to stop. "End in itself" ...
I say that it is good to have children because, in my personal -- and valid for me -- experience, life is on balance a good thing. Is it all good? Obv...
First a reasonable statement, then you plunge off the rails into the snake pit of twisted logic. "Wanting a child" does not, in any way, shape, manner...
These are not exactly contemporary issues. Over a century and a half one would expect editorships and dominant themes to change somewhat. The New York...
I don't really disagree with what you have posted so far. My main reservation is that I don't believe advertisers can jerk us around like puppets. I a...
I am generally familiar with Edward Bernays; I grant some truth to his theories about the relationship between 'mass messages" (advertising) and mass ...
I would not suppress the fact (if it were shown to be a fact). Hindu India has a number of appalling social practices owing to it's religious-cultural...
"The Law" one hopes, "is not an ass"ª and will not stoop to negotiating frosting. There are more substantive issues in public accommodation. A hotel-o...
Unfortunately the link didn't work for me. At least they had a novel "404" message. Just a quick perusal of their site (couldn't read much without sub...
IMHO, the matter of cake decorations seems too trivial to take up time in the judicial system, but public accommodation in general is a weighty issue....
It seems to me that public businesses are bound to serve any customer who walks in the door and makes a reasonable request. If I asked a bakery to sel...
Of course, I'm glad the bill was vetoed by the governor. It's always possible for some corporate committee or executive (whoever is able to speak on b...
There are, granted, more thoughtful appraisals of world events than what one sees on ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Fox, PBS, New York Times, et al. However, I d...
Thank you for the additional details. There's no excuse for this sort of thing happening. After a century of mechanized and digitized data processing ...
A number of states have been disenfranchising voters by fresh, new approaches -- like eliminating polling stations, requiring identification documenta...
While I'm talking about crazy narratives, a lot of what I hear about the Middle East follows a pretty shallow narrative. "Moslems in X country are blo...
So, what you said in your two posts above indicates that you are a fairly good reality tester. You had learned that you were on reasonably safe ground...
You, obviously, have no faith in the viewer who is only interesting in watching captivating content, whether it is totally non-sensical farce or not. ...
Last year, the advertising industry had revenues of 180 billion dollars. I don't believe that companies would be making these huge outlays if they cou...
There are three parts to "Media". Which part are you talking about? 1. The first part are the businesses of publishing and broadcasting (including dig...
I think that's right. Some research into early childhood experience (the first few months) indicates that babies come armed with some built in assumpt...
This doesn't solve much. Who decides what a better use is? I am in favor of the state of Israel, even if their existence was an imposition on the Pale...
Of course nations are wrong all the time. But if they can make their evil, unjust, illegal, wrongful, and just plain rude decisions stick, eventually ...
I hate saying this, but it seems like might makes right--later if not sooner. Israel has more might than the neighboring states have--when you add in ...
If you want better regulation, write to your congress unit. Or, better yet, chain yourself to his or her ankle. The FDA doesn't regulate supplements b...
Vitamin B12 is a water-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in some foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement and a prescript...
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