One of the forms of 'bad child rearing" concerns language. Children are exposed to many millions of words by the time they reach the school house door...
Lots of good ideas in your post. Who is against good parenting? I think we have all seen parents carrying out horrible child rearing practices at one ...
Weather Report: It's raining -- finally. Parts of Minnesota are in "extraordinary drought" which is worse than "severe drought". https://www.youtube.c...
Parts of it are really nice. Some parts of it are boring, NE Minnesota on Lake Superior https://www.lighthousefriends.com/ls13.jpg SW Minnesota prairi...
Whether 3/3/3/3 works or not depends on where you live. Up north here, December is usually winter, and November can be wintry as well. September is mo...
I don't know anything so I asked Google why this year's autumnal equinox is on the 23rd of September, and not the 21st? Google (quoting Wikipedia) say...
Apparently many people are ready to believe in the existence of UFOs which presumably contain aliens, and more. Erich von Däniken wrote a popular book...
Blessed are they who just stopped. I progressed through a long complicated withdrawal from religious belief. I'll spare everyone the tedious details. ...
True! For the most part, we don't just shrug our shoulders and move on after seeing something remarkable and previously unknown. Unfamiliar bird, an e...
I do not know -- we can not know -- beyond all doubt whether or not gods exist. A very large majority of people think gods do exist, and are active ag...
Most people likely associate creamy and pudding (or Jello Pudding). But "Yorkshire Pudding" is a popover served with beef drippings or gravy. Suet pud...
Googling Niki Wonoto reveals somebody somewhere doing philosophical business as Niki Wonoto; NW posts unremarkable pictures on Instagram and has poste...
Or, fill the condoms with pasta+sauce. Convenient fro freezing and reheating, without losing the chewy factor. An alternative to condoms would be dent...
I do not think of sauce as a 'binding agent' in spaghetti, manicotti, or lasagna. Cheese or eggs are more of a 'binding agent'. There is no reason for...
Some people have counterproductive thoughts. A lot of afflicted often hopeless people are afflicted by their circumstances. Their social/physical envi...
The Free Will card is played. I can also choose, at least as far as choosing to believing that I made a choice. I do not believe that people 'choose' ...
True. I have seen this phenomenon in myself--not so much "bizarre" behavior as self-defeating and counter-productive behaviors which seemed like a goo...
You have nailed it. A pointless provocateur and a nihilist poseur--a role that is altogether too easy take up. It probably seems cool to a certain laz...
Anesthesia really is different than sleep. Does one feel "rested" after anesthesia? I haven't felt "rested" afterwards. It was an "empty experience". ...
It would be nice if reality did keep track of everything, but "reality" does no such thing. It can not because "reality" is a concept, a mental object...
Your second guess is what horse condoms are actually used for. They are placed inside of the ersatz horse vagina on an (apparently convincing framewor...
The thing that I dislike about name-change campaigns is that they are a) campaigns conducted for some ulterior motive b) usually in the interest of a ...
Since "Great" Britain and the "United Kingdom" mean nothing to you, then we should obviously strike those two words from the map. It's like the lingui...
We haven't heard the late Victorian comic view on duty, so herewith For duty, duty must be done; The rule applies to every one, And painful though tha...
https://64.media.tumblr.com/7219e52099a305a21a9cdff19a36f586/a4162af63267516c-56/s1280x1920/f65f8a1cff193297be015f227f59d34b4b0b4988.pnj Actual horse ...
They don't look very sinister, not Borg-ish at all. You might want to consider being assimilated; resistance is sometimes futile. Their credibility wo...
Nice slice of history. Thanks. Events like the CNT strike in Spain, the Russian Revolution, and various other events, fueled the 1919-1920 "Red Scare"...
Interesting. When I was quite young (like late 20s) I thought I might be dead by 50. No reason, really, but 50 seemed like a long ways off. In 1981 AI...
I agree with your view that strong pro-labor and progressive politics requires "a strong relation between unions and a political party". Whatever they...
Of course it's possible. What is in doubt is how much is too much. Then we have to consider whether the popcorn is buttered (or otherwise greased and ...
In the US, hospitals are required to render care in emergency rooms, regardless of ability to pay. However, if you need hospital care once the emergen...
Back when (say... post WWII boom years) many workers had employment with the same company for a long time, it made more sense than it does now, where ...
My understanding is that American unions generally pay their members during a strike. The amount paid will likely be considerably less than the wage r...
The 'pros' and 'cons' list is not balanced. The 'pro' side is far stronger than the 'con' side. #1 under 'cons' is that some workers may dislike payin...
His speech employs guttural or glottal consonants -- generated in the rear of the mouth. Many of us find English consonants that are generated towards...
Maybe they should be out stealing birth control pills and condoms so they don't have the problem of not being able to feed their children? (I give mon...
Both, of course, but that's not saying much. Nature has been shaping animal behavior for a long time, and all present-day animals, including humans, a...
Conditions on reservations are abysmal. It's the same story in the White Earth Reservation. in NW Minnesota: poverty, high rates of unhealthy behavior...
Your thread is a success - lots of interesting ideas and responses. That said... Two dictionary definitions: Your definition is " a feeling of obligat...
I'm sorry, but I won't die for a meta-construction, even a recursive one. I have nothing against duty--I've performed my duties in different contexts ...
Your OP makes it my duty to quote "James Thurber, an American humorist, cartoonist, author, playwright, and journalist known for his quirky and relata...
Which country did you have in mind as a good example? As somebody put it, "The labor movement in the United States didn't die of neglect -- it was mur...
This is a nicely constructed dilemma involving real choices which workers face. The frosting on the cake is the government's appropriate decision to r...
"Oil reserves" is complicated by the adjective "recoverable". Some oil is buried so deeply that more energy is required to obtain the oil than the oil...
Bear in mind that some states have time limits between your giving away your earthly property and needing medicaid services like a nursing home. If yo...
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