@"Agree to Disagree" appears to be invincibly misinformed. There isn't much that can be done for or with the invincibly misinformed, the invincibly ig...
Good news; another health disparity is closing! Women are coming closer to the same death rate from alcohol use as men. And older women are doing thei...
Maybe a roofing nail. I suspect roofers are responsible for many flat tires. Why blame roofers? Why not blame roofers. They are as good a suspect as a...
"Barbie" is on my list of best-avoided experiences, so I can't judge how gay it was. I would think that narrow-minded middle-easterners (and others) c...
Or the penis may become more important because it is always covered up. Men whose penises have been blown off, shot off, or ruined by cancer greatly d...
Much of the time we are all covered up--chests, breasts, vulvas, penises, balls, butts, arm pits, knees... "Why are we covered up?" has been asked and...
Of course, the "other" species has to be closely related. Two closely related species, like donkeys and horses, can interbreed, but the progeny (calle...
Zebras are too skittish; too quick to attack. That sort of thing is great for keeping zebras alive -- not so good if you are trying to domesticate the...
That's a relief. I was feeling slightly anxious about it. In 2017 and 2018 the world produced 97,000,000 cars. More than I thought, but most of these ...
We have been reconfiguring the world for centuries -- true. It was definitely not "easy". The Industrial Revolution demanded extremely strenuous effor...
Sartre wrote a short story in which a member of the underground resistance was captured and under torture revealed where the rest of his 'group' would...
Greetings, Paul. Glad to see you visit your grand child (TPF, child of PF) every now and then. Time is of the essence here, since whatever is going to...
From a 'selfish' point of view, it is entirely in our interest to protect and preserve the earth--as a species, as a colossal herd of animals, as an a...
Reports have it that the various automatic tipping schemes divert some of the inflated tip to the owner, rather than the 100% of the tip going to the ...
Oh, look! Here's something in a foreign country, right next door, that we can obsess about: Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau are separating ...
Well, sometimes we don't understand. "Dope", for instance. The word was derived from Dutch "doopen" meaning 'to dip" or 'sauce' and was imported into ...
The Ancient Order of English Majors endorses grammar discussions in any thread on any topic. One must exploit the teachable moment. I wondered about t...
Nattering nabob of nitpicking grammarians here... The sons of bitches should leave the US politics to us Americans. "Us" is the object of the preposit...
Yes, I absolutely would vote for Eugene Debs, even if--or especially if--he was in prison for being against WWI and the draft. Their case is not equiv...
A less annoying word, one with a consistent spelling, is "convicted". Nice word when connected with Trump. "Prison" has a nice ring too. In the good o...
The New York Times announced Trump's latest (!) inditement in an edge to edge two line headline TRUMP INDICTED IN PUSH TO OVERTURN ELECTION So, one an...
The sentence "The cat is on the mat" takes me back to 1968 and a very basic literacy workbook the Job Corps was using. There was a line drawing depict...
I haven't read the book; perhaps the authors share valuable ideas. The authors practice a wretched style of composition I associate with 19th century ...
Oh, go ahead and focus on me. I'm 76 and haven't had my 15 minutes of fame yet -- just -7 minutes and 23 seconds worth. Yes; "home" has numerous Publi...
Thank you. (The poet) Carl Sandburg was working as a Chicago Sun Times reporter in 1919, the year of the Chicago Race Riot, set off by a black boy swi...
How dead is the Left when corporations use old leftie terminology? The masses on Google: https://64.media.tumblr.com/fd42ad845a68bda1914f48a75b8f8655/...
I do not LIKE the idea that there is no such thing as essential "identity" that one discovers, but experience and observation tells us that identity d...
Infection with Naegleria fowleri is fatal in 97% of cases and death may ensue within 1 to 5 days. The good news is that Florida is one of the states w...
Claiming the first option (not thinking clearly) wasn't necessary on your part. There was the second option of failing to communicate. Did you fail to...
This statement I can agree with. WE ARE Puritans in Massachusetts; slaves in Texas; Ojibwes and Germans in Minnesota; Chinese and Americans in the Gol...
What we have here is a failure to communicate, or worse, a failure to think clearly. A business saying "we're not making enough money" is a perfectly ...
Absolutely true. And for families that have stable but insufficient income and expenses they can not defer or live without, like feeding, housing, and...
Yes, the self-made multi-millionaire (multimillionaires to billionaires) is a fiction. Becoming rich requires the contributions of banks, investors, g...
A million dollars isn't what it used to be. Real estate is the vehicle that has made many people millionaires. Buying and paying for a house does requ...
I agree with Sushi on the importance of thrift and saving. Granted: it isn't possible for many families to save. The cost of basic care for parents an...
Of course, and it requires the Revolution to be over, such that the people could actually expropriate the expropriators. We are nowhere close to a con...
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