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C. A premium brand of ice cream sandwich--made available immediately without a request. When one wakes up in a foul mood, the blankie is too warm or s...

I am terribly sorry that your recent purchase of Goldfish turned out to be a lackluster experience. One expects a lot of Pepperidge Farm. Maybe a Pepp...

I can't remember what I thought at that age either. Until fairly recently, I thought that brussels sprouts were little cabbages that grew in rows in t...

It's like thinking spaghetti grows on trees, which, btw, some adults find plausible.

No wonder there was so much high anxiety a week ago.

Thank you!. The Science article was useful -- particularly the map of major events (tipping points) that could/would/will/might occur at different inc...

Scientists have talked about "tipping points", that features of the climate will not change smoothly over time, but will display sudden patterns. Are ...

That reminds me of Alexander Melamid's and Vitaly Komar's book, Painting by Numbers, edited by JoAnn Wypijewski, It is not 'hard' science, maybe not h...

@"schopenhauer1" When I reflect on the behavior of animals (setting human animals aside for a moment) they seem to have very similar behavior within t...

Sic transit gloria armento cacas

I never go dutch.

Hmm, that was a snooty snotty post. Mister Benkei squawks; He baulks at our haiku talk! It soils pristine woks. He thinks it takes low IQ to like our ...

Japanese haiku Works as English poetry Though not native. Cheers!

Probably evolved capacities.

I wasn't quibbling over the ghastliness of human trafficking, just the stats.

My assumption is that brains have been evolving as part of all animal bodies. Animal brains are initially shaped by genetics and the pre-natal environ...

I'm always on guard when a report says that something is very difficult to measurer or hard to track, that there is not nearly enough solid informatio...

If you two don't stop squabbling, one of you will be sent to the spider infested attic. the other to the centipede infested basement. Preferences? Plu...

Some historians (like Peter Turchin) Think the post WWII era economic regime was pretty close to that of Europe's social democracies: a proactive stat...

Would The Left please stop beating itself over the head for not launching a successful revolution. The last time progressive labor (just an adjective,...

The Minnesota Peach might be next, but the deer eat everything here as well.

They do, indeed. One of the features of gay bath houses (with which I'm pretty familiar) is that an appropriately sleazy operation provides dim to dar...

Have you seen the inside of a brothel? I have not; there are legal brothels only in some counties in Nevada. "No legal brothels" doesn't mean there ar...

Were I to meet a woman or a man, for that matter, selling sex I would not refer to them as a whore, and probably not as a prostitute, either--for the ...

"Legitimate" is a loaded word. "Conforming to the law or to rules" is the first meaning of legitimate. "Socially acceptable" often matches the first m...

I have had jobs that didn't suck because I was making an important contribution to the health of my community, or (different job) was helping college ...

hey hey, ho ho; boring chants have got to go So... The thing is, a good chant needs to rhyme and it needs rhythm. Not another nickel, not another dime...

What part of this seems incompatible with your version of socialism, whatever that may be? a) work sucks...? b) most jobs are exploitative...? c) is i...

Hey, work sucks; that's why they have to pay people to do it. Most jobs performed by workers are exploitative, unpleasant, tedious, uncomfortable, etc...

The advice to go do something useful was addressed to the CRITICS of the skin game, not the practitioners of the skin game. Or, do you count the criti...

The thing that I don't like about marijuana is that it disturbs my sense of time passing, such that time seems to pass very slowly for a while. It has...

I have no idea whether artificial intelligence can decide to be evil, or whether evil code needs to be provided. But we know humans can decide to be e...

What a splendid story -- and you are lucky in ever so many ways.

And then what happened? Since you wrote this post, you were apparently not blown up. Or you were, and somebody else wrote this post. Had I been there,...

I hope so! Here's Lassie at work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqIKeNUneZc

He would because Lassie personifies American Family Values better than anyone else. Lassie was never caught lying, cheating, or stealing. He always su...

The whole sex issue in humanity is doing just fine -- it's the critics that have the problem, which is too much time on their hands. Aren't there refo...

So much fur. Plus, Lassie insisted on NO BUTT SHOTS. Not because he was embarrassed about his balls or butt hole (he was, of course, inordinately prou...

Mentioning somebody with the format @"name" (@ " name " -- but with no spaces) replying to somebody with the little left-pointing arrow, and quoting s...

Welcome to The Philosophy Forum, the leading philosophy web site available in Fly Over Land. I heard that Tom thought that everything he had written w...

I, gay male, have been in straight strip clubs in Minneapolis. (I was there on business.) The atmosphere was subdued. The show was better in the more ...

According to ostensibly informed reports, the original print "Lassie" was a female dog, but the film and television "Lassie" was always a male. Accord...

The rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated.

The horse of a different color. Different pattern, anyway.

A cooked goose is delicious, but they aren't very meaty (they are all fatish dark meat ) and they are a royal pain to get ready for the kitchen--all t...

Hard to say. People over 100 have had a century to develop very particular preferences. And it depends on where the are from -- What are Mexican wavel...

Are there any suggestions why these geese were walking in this long line? Were they on a house tour? Was it a demonstration? Are they in basic trainin...

Chomsky's works, his many travels and speeches, his generous willingness to correspond with strangers, and his long life are gifts we have received, a...

Excellent! Nuclear winter would be a refreshing change of pace--personally, I'm getting bored with the same old CO2 and heat wave hysteria. Unlike the...

The next best example (because it doesn't exist anymore) was the Soviet Union, where the state operated as the corporation for which everyone worked, ...