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How did you go about assembling this list? Biden decriminalized marijuana? Say more. Give due credit to Congress for enacting his proposals, and due b...

What is your purpose in this thread? After one has read the Bible, studied theology and history, and attempted to follow this or that set of teachings...

They are the 'the kids'.

Aren't they teaching babies how to talk anymore?

Plan for 55,000-acre Utopia Dreamed by Silicon Valley Elites Unveiled The seeds of a corporate dystopia have already been planted -- the governing gro...

My father died at 102, but well before then had lost his wife and most of his neighbors and friends, pretty much his entire generation. His seven chil...

I'm not sure what effect watering x amount has on tomatoes. My general impression (based on canned tomatoes, tomatoes I grew, tomatoes from grocery st...

Diane Feinstein is another one who should retire forthwith. I don't think Biden is holding up all that well -- he appears to be aging more rapidly lat...

Can we say "transient ischemic attack"? He's on his way to a major stroke.

Even if I touch your hand with my hand, there are still electrons involved -- though it isn't necessary to talk about electrons in animal to animal to...

Is touching possible? It depends. Some animate two-legged objects are very fussy about being touched without giving their express permission. Soccer p...

Never mind the crap Republicans believe; 5 million bees fell off a truck on an Ontario road. Velveeta can neither fly nor sting, so...

Absolutely!

Thank you for the good critique. I was raised in a Protestant home and believed in God, Jesus, prayer, etc. I didn't choose my family, Christian doctr...

It's axiomatic, isn't it, that a large scale operation (40K McDonald outlets) is more efficient than scattered small scale operations (40K coffee shop...

"a closet full of bitter" is a great phrase which you shrewdly deployed without a '-ness' ending. One wouldn't pull a closet behind one, but a wagon, ...

If you like chocolate, did you CHOOSE to like chocolate? If you hate coffee, did you CHOOSE to hate coffee? If you like raw oysters, did you CHOOSE to...

That may be true; if it is, they didn't choose to be gullible. IF government requires the consent of the governed, THEN it is the interest of all gove...

It's a nice poem. Did you write it? (no shame in not having written it)

"How to choose what to believe?" Can we "choose" what to believe? 95%, no; 5% yes. "Beliefs" are derived from experience, to start with, "when I was a...

Fine, but heat is heat and you can't identify which degree of heat is from water vapor, CO2, CH4, N20 (nitrous oxide), Perfluorocarbons, hydroflurocar...

"Greenhouse gas" isn't a single substance; methane, CO2, CFCs, and other gasses all have varying periods of time before they are broken down. A cubic ...

I'm as viscous as molasses in January. I wasn't able to verify how viscous they were -- they were probably less viscous than asphalt.

Certainly not to Donald, were this a True Crime story.

What made you think the viscous criminals to whom Trump was thrown were white?

After the booking, Donald is taken to the lower floor of the jail where the toughest county prisoners are held. Donald is thrown into a cell with 6 of...

Interesting neologism. Question: Did you make it up (kudos if you did) or is it in common usage? I lived in Massachusetts for 2 years -- 68-70 -- and ...

The practical problem of sortition at the federal level is that congress is elected "by the people" so to speak for the purpose of protecting wealthy ...

For some reason, you didn't like the idea of "human stewardship" and I do. We disagree. You expressed the odd notion that plants "decided" to use phot...

Ah, the Weather Girls! Big hit in the gay bars back then. I saw them at Cloud 9 in Minneapolis, a popular but slightly seedy gay bar -- the best kind.

Yevgeny Prigozhin seems to have had an unfortunate accident while in a plane. Somehow I'm just not surprised, nor am I grief-stricken. Too bad he didn...

Perhaps you take a very deterministic view of behavior which classifies bees', beavers', and humans' behavior as automatic. If you are not a 100% dete...

As troubling, why do good things happen to bad people? When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner, 1981 might help answer this questio...

Why do you object to human stewardship of the planet? When we gained the capacity to significantly change the planet (several thousand years ago) we b...

I didn't pay enough attention to the music of my day -- 64-76 -- either. Now when I listen to various groups that were popular back then, Moody Blues,...

I don't find @"Universeness" boring and odious. Well, never odious but sometimes a bit tendentious. Everyone here, including my splendid self, is bori...

Religion is one of the things we invented. It belongs to us. Good, bad, or indifferent -- it didn't come from a deity.

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You seem testy again. You probably need to lay someone down more often.

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall." Frost said.

"lay down" is a euphemism for getting laid which is a colloquial expressing for getting fucked which is a vulgarism for performing intercourse. In thi...

Wouldn't that be "put down"?

The wall did not speak? Odd.

Getting laid An entry in Wikipedia on the Levee District of Chicago -- a hot red light district at the turn of the 20th century--claims that the high-...

An interesting discovery about babies is that seem to be born with a few innate expectations about the physical world. Other animal babies also. Kitte...

What is "folk music in its pure form"? What music exists in a "pure form"? Pure or not, I like early Dylan. His lyrics were very fresh and vigorous. A...

I'm not a hydrogen booster. Namibia is planning a hydrogen production facility driven by wind and solar. If steel and lime can be made with electricit...

40 years of warning about the next 10 years. Right. Too bad we weren't paying attention. In this world, very little ever happens quickly. Long lead ti...

You will be happy to discover that is precisely the policy of most countries. However, if the change doesn't happen fast enough then global heating ma...

No, we used a small wood fire to get the coal going. During the winter, the fire was maintained by the regular addition of more coal (done by hand). A...