I hope the "The Giant Dildo Ride" wasn't damaged. It's a pain in the ass but a lot of people look forward to it when the carnival comes through. Just ...
Or, why not a holiday for the Emancipation Proclamation which was the news to arrive late in Galveston. Lots of notable black people to commemorate. W...
Aristotle being ridden by Phyllis. Keep this image in mind when people quote the old man. https://cdn.quillette.com/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-10-at-1...
I presume that being trans, like being gay or straight, is NOT a choice. The style in which one lives out his or her sexuality, however, is a choice, ...
You raise an important issue. 1 in 7 Americans have a disability that interferes with ordinary life activities. Even so, advocates and legislators hav...
The term "sexual/gender orientation" doesn't help discriminate between one kind of "woman" and another kind. Would "sexually" or "chromosomally" defin...
Stereotypes do change over time -- maybe not a lot, but certainly some. The housewife stereotype of decades past (mother, caregiver, thrifty homemaker...
You have come to the wrong place for refuge. The Shoutbox suffers from highly repetitive food reports. "For lunch I had..."; for supper I made with li...
Why do men want to urinate in women's toilets in the first place? It used to be the case that women's urinary-function facilities were appointed with ...
If everything is possible and nothing is certain, then all our thoughts are just so much straw. (This sentence makes reference to St. Thomas Aquinas' ...
Excellent points! Trans theorists want it both ways: a) there is such a thing as objective gender (penis, vagina, breasts, testicles, ovaries, hormone...
We're pretty much on the same page. I am an adult human male who identifies as a man and looks like a man. I am attracted physically and emotionally t...
I am quite surprised that Velveeta is still being developed -- adding jalapeños, for example. Wonder bread is (still) being made by Flowers Foods, a l...
P Pimento cheese spread on Ritz crackers is the closest I've come to a pimento cheese sandwich. It's a tasty highly processed food-like product. A pim...
Minnesota public Radio is Gay Pride (aka GLBTIA... something or other) this month. No good deed goes unquestioned, and I, for one, find it a bit annoy...
Macaroni salad with diced cheddar cheese, diced celery, other dicings, and mayo is my childhood's summer food nightmare. I still avoid it like the pla...
On a quiet warm night one can hear the corn grow. Rapidly growing stalks crack and break as the plant lifts itself upward and enlarges it's leaves. It...
I biked 2 or 3 miles, errands to the post office, drug store, credit union, etc. It was all around irritating. Any worse and I'd either stay home or r...
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin. It's about the problem of immiserated masses, over-produ...
The Mayo Clinic prescribes Hellmann's. I prefer Miracle Whip. IMHO tuna salad should have diced up egg, pickle, tuna, mayo -- and no celery. Bits of c...
There is gradual impoverishment of the masses and an an overpopulated elite establishment -- too much money, too much education, too much desire for p...
Looks like a crepe to me as well. Pancake and crepe batter may be very similar, but crepe batter has to be thinner and possibly have a bit less leaven...
If you weren't galavanting around Eurasia as much as you do (even Alberta and BC) I'd say you needed to get out more. Clearly, that's not your problem...
Well, call her up and ask her. "Are you STILL making those gritty, buckwheat pancakes? Oh. Ok, then, good bye." Buckwheat groats (the seeds) have a lo...
s Soba noodles are made out of buckwheat. Buckwheat is a broadleaf plant (related to rhubarb) whose seeds are ground into a meal. It's not a grain at ...
That "something" about an Agua Vulva man is that he reeks from splashing on cologne like it was water. When I was in college (60s) English Leather was...
Ufologist -- that's UFO-ologist, not Urologist. Fortunately he is retired from medicine. He should see a gastroenterologist ASAP since he is probably ...
The antecedents of the "proud boys" existed and operated before the internet: Militias, Ted kaczynski (the 'unibomber), Timothy McVeigh (blew up Oklah...
A medieval history scholar said we know more about ancient societies (2000 - 3000 years ago) than we do about medieval society. That was several decad...
Sure, because in the early medieval period there weren't any capitalists. The local Lord had the income of land rent (from peasants, yeomen, etc.) so ...
Luther's father started out a peasant, true, but he fairly quickly succeeded in being a miner, then a mine owner, then a business man (doing what, don...
Or, they have noticed us the same way we have noticed that some stars have planets in the 'goldilocks zone". We know almost nothing about these planet...
If they both hated capitalism, their reasons for doing so were quite different. Laborers were toiling in the 'dark, satanic mills' ; long hours, dange...
AI comes to mind first. It's a new and potentially dire threat, depending on who deploys it for what purposes and whether or not it has big OFF switch...
In a science fiction story, the aliens showed up on earth to announce that the Galactic Authority was evicting humans from earth. Why? We weren't maki...
An astrophysicist on the radio today said that one part of our alien-knowledge problem is that when pictures are taken of alleged alien vessels, it's ...
There are certainly "ethnicities" among the N & S American Aboriginal people--Astecs, Inca, Toltecs, and Maya to name 4. There are numerous others, al...
It would be quite impressive if we heard accounts of strange dish-like ships in the sky over France in 1817, for example. As far as I know, stories ab...
FERMI'S PARADOX The following are some of the facts and hypotheses that together serve to highlight the apparent contradictions behind the Fermi parad...
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