Nixon was a natural-born target for loathing, but he was a reasonably competent crook chief executive, many of whose policies were OK. Nixon's rep als...
The pill. Mustn't forget the pill. And then later, the Roe vs Wade decision. There were people who hated Roosevelt and New Deal programs like Social S...
I was not old enough to vote for him, but I would have. In retrospect the Kennedy's were classier than their immediate predecessors and successors. Ja...
Hey! it wasn't a slide -- it was an ascent. So I don't know how it would have turned out if JFK had remained president for 2 terms. Johnson was able t...
One of the benefits of reading only slightly ancient history (which I think you do) is that we find junior men interacting say... 40 years ago, influe...
You knew I'd take the bait! Of course, the Kennedy Assassination was hugely important in that decade. It was like Pearl Harbor or 9/11 in that people ...
"Who knows what this technology will evolve into in the next 30 years" the narrator wonders. Yes, what indeed? The 1946 computers couldn't sing and th...
"Some people's children!" If only we knew how to distinguish those who will competently raise children for 18 years from those who will not. We know t...
An artificial Xmas tree with a floor protector underneath it--either too early for this year or left over from a previous decade. A "chandelier" with ...
We are not going to let you get away with false reports on the nutrition of corn nuts. There is nothing in corn nuts that would make them nutritious: ...
No, the weekly calorie requirements of a family of mice greatly exceeds the food value of one corn nut. There is that, and then there is the lack of v...
No problem! In 100 years the world will be in the midst of a 3ºC - 5ºC overheating crisis; the stormy chaotic weather will be hot; the oceans will be ...
If wishes were horses, the peasants would ride. I wish for a general, mutual peace. That would be good. What I hope Israel DOES NOT do is create peace...
How much one cares about Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, et al is a distinction that doesn't make a difference. "Caring" sounds a lot like "our thoughts ...
Ever since Daguerre invented photography, we've served up pictures of horrors. The gory details of the American Civil War were captured on film (so to...
Legal schmegal. Law is a good thing within a civil society. "States" are not citizens themselves. States have interests which they pursue. The busines...
The organism and the disease: https://img.wbmdstatic.com/vim/live/webmd/consumer_assets/site_images/articles/health_tools/ringworm_slideshow/getty_rm_...
People entertain all sorts of wrong ideas, like the mind and body being two separate things. Blame Descartes for that. Many people 'privilege' rationa...
Hey, thanks for the info. Which city was this? That's probably what's going on here in Minneapolis. I don't like it. Handing tents out doesn't create ...
Emotion and reason are intimately connected in the brain, and they are not in perpetual opposition. Humans whose emotions and reason are disconnected ...
Speaking of illegal migrants being shipped out of Texas and homegrown homeless, where do all these newish-looking tents come from? Is there an infinit...
You often link to your relevant past posts, any one out of 13.2k+. How do you keep track of your past posts? do you store them in a text file? Index t...
Welcome. A very slow arc, I'd say. Just my personal opinion, but formal, academic philosophy is about as tedious a subject as there can be. Consider t...
I came across this piece from Deutsche Welle on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CftCns18rn4&t=1076s. The program was about drought in Spain. T...
Donald as in Duck would be OK, I suppose. Think ahead a bit; the dog is outside in the yard and you are yelling at it to come back inside--the dog is ...
Xi won't be able to believe it either! Between the homeless encampments (their jobs departed for China and Bangladesh), gangs doing snatch and grab sh...
Some people are sort of black holes, even if they don't intend to be. Your friend's atheism, by itself, isn't the problem; the problem is in the prese...
Oh yes, I remember chanting that, and others like ho ho Ho Chi Minh the NLF is gonna win or US out of Viet Nam Japan and Okinawa and one two three fou...
Of course they do, but people who organize demonstrations generally do not employ PR firms to make sure all of their messages are 'on point' and unamb...
I hope that is the case. We'll see. I find it very irksome that demonstrators in Europe and the US have marched down the street chanting "From the oce...
Like 99% of us here, I've heard plenty of secular environmentalist talk. I like that kind of talk. However, IF a religious environmentalist can get mo...
This is especially true of disputes between individuals and small groups, or disputes between nations that do not involve existential issues. The EU w...
The NY subway system is roughly 250 miles long -- all underground? I don't think so -- some of it is above ground. Isn't an above ground subway a cont...
War is hell, regardless of the combatants, without respect to the goodness of one side and the wickedness of the other. Yes, Israel is deploying massi...
Does one get any rest from spite, despite a respite from spite? I mean, spite and then re-spite? Can we de-spite somebody, the way one de-worms a dog?...
Avoid philosophy too. Being surrounded by clouds of vague speculation all day will turn out to be more debilitating than being surrounded by numbers. ...
Georgia's commitment to free education for those entering old age and approaching the grave is heartwarming. It's wonderful how the old folks are now ...
I can understand that, totally. It's been 60 years since I entered college, and I am SO GLAD I don't have to relive it now. So glad it's only academia...
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