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I eat yogurt. I like sauerkraut, but I doubt if commercial sauerkraut has anything alive in it. Also, the internal temperature of baking bread is abou...

Whatever works. I used to be 5'10" -- I'm a bit shorter now, and weighed around 160 pounds in 1986. I was kind of gaunt -- someone at the bar wanted t...

I think we should remember, just for context, that quite a few nations/empires have had their fingers in the Middle Eastern pie. To start with... The ...

Fitness isn't having the body that fashion decrees. Fitness is having a body capable of doing what you need to get done without feeling exhausted. At ...

I'm decidedly over weight and need to lose at least 25 pounds, preferably 45. I'm following a diet that is low on carbohydrates (not free of), with as...

There was a good editorial in the Guardian--I thought it was good, anyway--Why I am becoming a Jew and you should too by Nick Cohen.

So here's one more. I think this demonstrates the extreme better than A. S. /uploads/resized/files/dy/8cp56yrrljo954uc.jpg At least, if he needs a blo...

I totally agree that capitalism fouls it up. I appreciate what you've said about 'fitness', diet, performance enhancing drugs, and so on. If you look ...

If the rally was a private, ticketed event, not open to the public, fine. It would be rude to go and disrupt it. However, if it is a public rally with...

It isn't against the law to BE psychopathic. Indeed, as I pointed out above, it might even be a socially acceptable advantage to be slightly psychopat...

I presume Trump made his money the way most rich people do: it's a combination of inheritance, investment, and possibly some ingenuity. I also presume...

Are there no laws already on the books that can be taken to court and declared, or not declared, unconstitutional?

I see you've surmised that life really sucks. Quite right, it does. Sucky sucky sucky life. And I've spent decades stewing over it, like you are here....

Been reading Chomsky lately? Look, I'm well aware of the historical bloody mess we've left behind us, but Discoii, there are no human societies on ear...

It didn't disappear. Your question is simple, but the answer is complex -- I'll just scratch at it. There is a lot of information out there about who ...

At the moment I can't decide which one of you is more annoying in this so-far brief discussion These are not creditable views. Are you two conspiring ...

"Conservatives" have no monopoly on legal traditions. There are, side by side, liberal traditions and conservative traditions. Conservative courts are...

Yes, the SCOTUS is key, and it needs a couple more liberal judges, at least. By "liberal" i mean, understanding that the constitution was framed in 17...

The USSR began from a very long tradition of authoritarian, sometimes savage, Czarist autocracy and the Communists continued the fine tradition. Did t...

Heterosexual marriage was not a psychological possibility. It was out of the question from the get go, and some things one just has to accept, and tha...

It is certainly the case that the West (and much of the world) has been undergoing a large shift in the norms of social, sexual, marital, behavior and...

Well, don't know about you, but intercourse has always been a physical function for me and my partners. Of course there is a critical psychological pi...

I din't say anything about the state raising the child. I think it is the parents' job (emphasis on the plural there) to raise their child(ren). I thi...

coincidentally, that's what a lot of people think Hillary is.

Oh come now! People talk about sex, politics, and religion all the time. What circles are you traveling in where all this isn't talked about?

That's what they said about masturbation. They lied.

Being born homosexual (and later electing what to do with it) frequently carries with it the cost of not passing on one's genes. Of course, with techn...

The virtue of promiscuous sex, or the lack of it, is something I have spent decades thinking about. Sexual activity, per se, is first a physical funct...

Except in the case of late stage syphilis--nothing to sneeze at--little sex or a lot of sex has no known effect on the mind. My guess is that plentifu...

There does seem to be a belief among some heterosexuals that it is women's job to keep men under control. I don't recollect hearing that in traditiona...

Discussions of sex and politics are always "on topic". I think this particular field was rather thoroughly plowed a while back here and elsewhere, nev...

In, out, up down. Let's call the whole thing in between.

I think he was talking about Catholics in church, not catholics in concert.

Your question doesn't have a simple answer. Generally, NO we don't want to grant power to psychopaths. But remember: psychopathy isn't an all or nothi...

Democracy is a tool laying there waiting to be used. We can pick it up and use it, and then if we don't want dynasties, we won't have them. It require...

Once you become officially Jewish, we'll confirm your new status by coming down to Arizona and spraying swastikas on your house. BTW, there aren't any...

You can convert to judaism. And, you don't have to get circumcised (because you don't have a dick). Of course, if you really want to be circumcised......

Psychopathy isn't an all or nothing condition. It presents itself in degrees, from a slight tendency to psychopathy to extreme disassociation of feeli...

Quote from a dour gay Scotsman named Scott: "St. Patrick's Day is nothing but another excuse for the Irish to get drunk." As a young part-Irish man, I...

I LOVE the culture-data on maps which this site features. Some of these appeared in the New York Times (thus having the imprimatur of the NYC intellig...

I feel very torn between wanting to be an Anglo Saxon pagan and an erudite Jew (I have nothing against adult circumcision -- I just don't want to be t...

"Semitic" as an ethnic group is more expansive than "Jewish", isn't it? The Palestinians, Lebanese, and Syrians are all Semites. The Arabs are semitic...

As I said, one's morality should be centered on the Golden Rule, and if it isn't, be suspicious. There just isn't any formula that will keep one out o...

What Sanders would have had to have done 30 years ago is begin to build an independent left-liberal party in New England, the Midwest, and the West Co...

A misinformed soul praised Trump in a New York Times response column for 'speaking for the dispossessed and excluded'. Sanders is the only one who cou...

Tiff is right. There is surely a part for you to play. Perhaps you could be the butler who comes into the drawing room to deliver the silver tray of d...

Oh, you aren't going to start up with this Landru Guide us meme business too, are you? Sometimes you have to violate societies rules in order to be mo...

Did the 7 mile bridge start out as a railroad bridge to the keys? Seems to me it did. Nice painting.

Laundromats are splendid topics of street/room scapes. They combine clean white cubes, (usually, clean, white...) dilapidated ceilings, little furnitu...

Older folk than you are beginning to think very fondly of Nixon and LBJ. Very old people are looking back on Truman and Roosevelt as the truly good ol...