NEW YORKER cartoon showing aliens returning home with stolen NYC trash cans. https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/framed-print/im...
@"Metaphysician Undercover"Even though I prefer Mozart, Haydn, and Handel, there is much that is subversively irresistible about Frank Zappa's music/l...
It's not maple trees that are burning -- it's spruce, fir, pine, and tamarack, mostly. After the fire is over, pioneer species of aspen, white birch, ...
WIKIPEDIA: So, the later migrations subsequent to the first migration seem to have involved the far northern peoples in Alaska, Canada and Greenland. ...
The very small particles of air pollution can damage the lungs of course, but the smallest particles cross the air/blood membrane in the lung and are ...
A couple of weeks ago I saw a fresh produce stocker very carefully arranging the bananas on the square 2-level display. For instance all of the single...
Several Asian and South Asian cities (like New Delhi and Beijing) have long stretches of bad air pollution, and millions of people still want to be th...
Well, misery loves company, and a lot of people were miserable (as in disturbed, upset, alarmed... (setting aside the ones on ventilators). I found th...
It isn't a closed loop, though, where the money goes round and round. is continually reinvested, producing ever more efficient industry and every larg...
How is your air quality indoors? Air purifier? Hardware stores (and on line) sell particulate masks with activated charcoal filters (made out of burnt...
FRANK: Hopefully it doesn't get so bad that the Okies are starving to death in shanty towns on the road to California SCROOGE: If they are going to st...
Well, you know, they are all kind of related, having arrived in the Hemisphere at roughly the same time--some 20,000 years ago. It's like, say, if the...
Oh well, you see I didn't want to insult you with an actual $3 check. That's like giving a beggar a nickel. Not much she can do with even 20 of them. ...
That's an error from the lyrics site. I noticed it, but, when the topic is growing floss, it's hard to tell. "Waxen" (instead of "waxin") doesn't look...
So, the reference goes back to 1973 and a Frank Zappa song, Montana: I never heard of the song; thanks, Google. For some odd reason, dental floss is m...
It's a good thing they don't farm cod or walleye (fresh water fish). Fish farming (salmon, shrimp...) tends to be too much like raising hogs in confin...
Well, several of those were banana republics, and it really wasn't that much trouble to destabilize, corrupt, conquer, despoil, take over, and otherwi...
Bizarre statements there! "It has a very mild flavour, making it easy for people to eat. It’s a good Velveeta substitute because it’s so mild, soft, a...
Mayflies, aka Ephemeroptera meaning short lived, used to be very plentiful for a short period of time in the spring. So plentiful that bridges over th...
A lot of things just don't taste as good as they used to, and I am quite sure it is my palate problem and not that the quality of all those things hav...
Most Europeans, I have heard, find Hersey's chocolate bars unsatisfactory. The milk used in Hersey's bars is condensed -- a process which will definit...
A batch of US dairy operations produce quality cheeses, including cheddar. I can buy high-end cheese at the grocery store -- some imported, some domes...
Velveeta™ is quite disgusting, no doubt about that, but it doesn't list Polymethyl Methacrylate or polystyrene as an ingredient. It may have actual ch...
Suddenly fastidious about pork parts? The part that is pickled is the bony structure, not the toe-nail. It's meat and bone, seasoned and cooked. When ...
All the fucking time! Thanks for asking. WELCOME TO THE PHILOSOPHY FORUM Your discomfiture has to do with the ingravescent inimicalities of life as we...
The enlightened guardians of the universe show up and mankind shoots itself in the head. Not an entirely new plot by any means, but all of the well kn...
A lot of things have happened which require reconciliation with disparate concepts of God. How is the Holocaust compatible with a loving, all powerful...
It isn't like the baked beans are actually baked in some traditional Englishy way -- they are pretty much like American store-brand canned beans, OK t...
No, he uses the 1 gallon plastic bag he brought the peanuts in to take home "left-overs". It's a kind of Homer Simpson thing Hanover does at all you c...
Maybe somebody already spoke to this, but bathrooms are also a place to adjust one's clothing, possibly change clothing, and apply makeup (if one does...
Genetic disease is an important topic, as is their control, so let's focus on genetically caused disease. Heliobacter pylori are bacteria, not a genet...
Take psychopathy. On the extreme end, you get arsonists, rapists, and bloody murderers who don't feel much. They are clearly a problem. Too bad we don...
I am not autistic. I am gay, visually impaired, old, and chronically depressed (like for 30 years). I'm happy to claim being gay and being old as "uni...
Canned cranberries have pectin in them (naturally); pectin plus sugar = gel. Many people have only had canned cranberries and reject home made; I find...
Are Mediterranean chickens different than say, the chickens of Alabama? As Aristotle said, "Good food is better than bad food" so enjoy it before some...
Alas, we do not have effective solutions for all problems! For example: It isn't that I merely disagree with the right wing fundamentalist thinking of...
Fair enough, St. Augustine also prayed to God to make him chaste -- but not yet. A similar statement was made by Martin Luther -- "sin boldly, but let...
The first 4 sentences are coherent. The last, 5th sentence, doesn't follow. "Moral nihilism is the meta-ethical view that nothing is morally right or ...
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