Good OP. Personal morality is / must be derived from the social milieu in which one is reared. We may have some innate, simple forms of right/wrong, f...
I hope Wade is successful in making a banjo-based music career. He seems to have the same level of commitment you'd find in a Juilliard violinist (don...
Rendezvous With Rama was mentioned in a news story about Oumaumau. Yes, great sci fi novel, and the sequels were (like many sequels are) not great but...
Sometimes it's hard to put things just right. It came from outer space, right; but where we are is ALL outer space. Probably its source is in our own ...
Quote: He believes the tiny objects, about half a millimetre in size, are most likely made from a steel-titanium alloy that is much stronger than the ...
Clarinetists have banjoists beat out all hollow. A joke that doesn't go over well with people who play the banjo: "Did you hear about the guy with per...
I had a similar experience. One of my entrees to country music were films like Tender Mercies with Robert Duval (1983). Another was the juke box at th...
Actually, I have been spared the music under consideration for 76 years, having not heard this specific crap before today. But for arithmetic, 1986 to...
#1 in 1986 and 2003? That means I was spared this experience for a combined total of 57 years. There are vast seas of cultural sludge of which one can...
I didn't know that; Parton's lyrics and performance are very sweet. I agree that what you posted is "a version" but it's not better or even good. Just...
"Never been a sinner, I never sinned" is non-christian, since Christianity has the certainty of sin baked in. That's one of its defects. On the other ...
Great car color, especially if you have the polygons added. It will stand out in the parking lot. Mud cracks for the ages. The mud cracks below are 45...
@"Frank" Jewish from Malden, MA. He recorded a number of albums but he was a one-hit wonder. Nothing wrong with that. Apparently he was inspired by a ...
Weight is a perplexing issue. Once one has ratcheted up one's weight from a slim BMI to an overweight/obese BMI, it can be really very difficult for m...
The Nordic model may be as close to heaven as we are going to get. Soviet-style communism is not. We could blame obesity on sloth, gluttony, and greed...
What are you not sure is correct? Survey's are one way of estimating tobacco use behaviors; market data would be another way. A third way is investiga...
New lung cancer diagnoses continue to decline because of a decades earlier and continuing decline in the number of active smokers. If, tomorrow, smoki...
What are you trying to do -- cause a world-wide depression? (joke) I'm not sure that sparse possessions, in itself, builds character. Character may ha...
Such as, there is no such thing as second-hand alcohol, heroin, meth, cocaine, fentanyl, etc? Second-hand smoke helped the anti-smoking cause. Some pe...
Manufacturers market to pharmacy wholesalers and to doctors. I can understand how medical staff might not be familiar with a totally new class of drug...
I am pretty sure that vaping is accounted for in smoking statistics which are derived both from sales records and from health surveys. Marijuana smoki...
Tobacco is a good example of this. Over the last 50 years, tobacco use has been substantially reduced by a combination of price factors, banning indoo...
I'm not sure about how badly people want a public option for health insurance, but it certainly sounds like exaggeration to claim most people want eff...
Aside: In what industries are they NOT seeking to maximize profits? I prefer to group drug or alcohol use and gambling as additions, and activities li...
Has there been a case, YET, of identical male twins both becoming women (or visa versa)? https://omicron.aeon.co/images/9be46917-3245-493c-8b17-72e936...
I've not seen a stork in the US; I did see one something like this one in Uganda. Kind of homely. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb...
Was at Howard's funeral today -- he was 96. Among his many interests was Heart of the Beast Puppet Theater in Minneapolis. Just before the recessional...
That was the idea for college admission, but not necessarily to supply diversity to elite professions (to whatever extent university teaching is still...
It's plain enough. I passively support free access to abortion, but organized opposition against Roe Vs. Wade has been active since 1973. I think equa...
The court will be leaving wreckage in its wake, for sure, but affirmative action has been supported and attacked since John F, Kennedy's 1961 Executiv...
A pun, also rarely known as paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intend...
That was a pun? BTW, 'gullible squirrels' was a pun on the daily Canadian news show, As It Happens. They always end their day's lead in with a pun on ...
The court's decision on affirmative action is as surprising as its decision on abortion. In both cases, the court delivered on the conservative agenda...
Like the video of a herring gull swallowing a squirrel whole "went viral". Neither squirrels nor sea gulls changed their behavior, despite their addic...
For supper (last night) I made latkes, sautéed mushrooms (cremini), and carrot and rutabaga boil. Scrapple sounds like something that would be made on...
Who had the most agency with respect to the Chicago Housing Authority? In first place was the federal government which established funding and various...
I am not confident that this description is realistic, my doubt hingeing on the word "tolerance". I doubt that very much. They DO mind, even in the gh...
It's 'hydrocephalus' that causes the brain to swell up -- but only if you're a baby. When an adult's brain swells up, you just drop dead. (The ancient...
Some standards can be applied to anyone, without respect to their wealth or poverty, residence in a $1,000,00 - $5,000,000 per home suburb, or stinkin...
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