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Asking for and getting a Carnagie library was very worthwhile for small towns, which would otherwise have had a much smaller, less serviceable library...

If you've got a picture of this library, it would be nice to see it. I looked on the Kent State web site and they have many pictures, but they seem sq...

The newer Wilson Library at the U of MN is a big not lovely brick of a building, 6 stories, no separate stacks. The older beaux arts-style Walter Libr...

The little town I grew up in had a Carnegie Library. https://www.ci.chatfield.mn.us/home/showpublishedimage/712/637399249814470000 It was not the 'med...

You would have been vastly more shocked if she had taken you to the New York Public Library. As a future civil engineer, you would also have been thri...

Isn't using "truth" the way you did also old and tired?

I used to have 3 bookcases full of books which I loved. When tablets became available, I discovered that reading on a screen was far easier--for me--t...

Were I to become a Jew, I would not mind being deprived of catfish. Fine by me. Shellfish, on the other hand, I would regret. Screw octopus, but I'd m...

For Christ's sake, calm down. You are reading too much into my comment. But, just so you know, there still are religious (Christian) people who teach ...

Is 'Truth' truth to everyone in the same way? If you have found a little, some, or all of 'the truth' have you found it not only for yourself, but for...

For me, the strongest push toward socialism and liberation causes came from my reading of the NT and OT. I still counted myself a believer when I was ...

For an atheist, you seem to have a rather larger stock of theological material than many believers. I don't know whether it was intentional or not, bu...

As an atheist myself, I don't find the behavior of believers (pick a religion, any religion) any more appalling than the behavior of non-believers. Be...

They wouldn't be proper Roman Catholics, but there are theologians who have posited that God became Jesus, as in the Moravian Hymn, "God lies in a man...

At least read Annie Proulx's short story, Brokeback Mountain. No drag in it, but it's unsettling in that the two men are cowboys (well, sheep herders-...

Gay theme, not trans. See, that's the problem of grouping gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, and queer all together. They don't all belong in the same cat...

The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert is good drag comedy. Will Ron Himself attend? If he does, he'll probably need to be in a straitjacket ...

Incel orcas, probably.

Didn't they cap the monthly cost of insulin at $30? That should fit into any bear's budget, considering they aren't paying for their sugar highs.

Catfish vs. sewage? Toss-up. There were very big catfish in the Chernobyl cooling ponds before the place blew up; they are still there. Some of them a...

I have never been at Rehoboth Beach. I was at Frontenac Methodist Camp on Lake Pepin (Mississippi River) in the 1970s. The camp was old and run down, ...

I read somewhere that children who learn tonal languages are at least somewhat more likely to have perfect pitch. Apparently there is cross over from ...

I agree that Bud Lite isn't really beer, but why is it a leading brand? What's wrong with ordinary Budweiser or Miller or... Blatz? (Blatz is real bee...

You might want to add an intensifier to that, what the Jesuits call "invincible ignorance". "It's not enough that dogs succeed; cats must fail!" Yours...

I can and have condemned racists, sexists, nazis, fascists, terrorists, greedy capitalists, etc here and elsewhere. Honestly, I haven't given incels m...

Of course the victims of crimes against persons deserve compassion--compassion in the form of concrete succor. No one has difficulty in expressing com...

You are shallower than I thought you were.

Are petty thieves more deserving of compassion than those who engage in grand theft? No. Is compassion and mercy something that can be casually grante...

The standard definition of "compassion" is not as compelling as a more extended treatment: "sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfort...

a) Compassion does not signify approval. b) An internet group is an abstraction which can not be the object of compassion--which is not to say it does...

Loneliness is an under-rated condition that affects a lot of people. I suspect that many instances of diagnosed depression are actually loneliness, al...

"Incels. Why is this online group becoming so popular?" I'm wondering why the topic of incels, this legion of unattractive toads, is so popular a thre...

From the perspective of a gay man long gone from the dating scene, it does seem like these (mostly young?) straight men have a bad case of self-loathi...

How many instances of violence by incels are there? How often does bitching and carping about their sad condition turn into assault and battery (or fa...

2045? maybe 2145 or 2245. Given a severe social upheaval (do not under any circumstances hope for one) men and women could, perhaps, rearrange roles. ...

Thanks, Vera; that's valuable intel for everyone in the dating scene. Romance will blossom. Of course, hating and loathing the same thing can be quite...

Hey-this is America -- we have no national institute approving or disallowing new words. Here, it's the province of Free Enterprise -- most likely, so...

Benj's guide to developing irresistible CHARISMA in 21 days! Try these techniques to build DYNAMITE CHARISMA! Manage your nerves. Pace your speech. Ta...

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Market values and money to be made is a big part of the problem. There are market values and money to be made in bars, too. Why don't bars result in m...

That was my strategy as a young gay guy. Lots of shagging (which was great on its own) to shake out a good prospect, who, as it happened, came along s...

What "terrible deeds" are incels responsible for? Atomization and anomie seems to be on target.

Please site your "prehistorical sources. The sex demographics are complicated by education demographics. According to Pew Research... Rates of marriag...

Who doesn't?

Contemporary society is a thoroughly alienating experience for many people -- not everyone, but a good share. Social media, dating apps, etc. bring th...

Your exposition of the incel's condition is very through; I'm wondering whether this is based on personal familiarity with incels, or whether it is de...

Yes, birth rates have fallen, particularly in industrialized countries. Japan is already experiencing the unwelcome problem of too few young people in...

Exactly.

Carbon dioxide is recycled -- recaptured -- by biological processes, IF -- BIG IF -- the carrying capacity of the planet is not exceeded. Maybe the pl...

Population is absolutely a problem. While birth rates are falling, the population is still growing -- it reached 8 billion about a year ago.