We all were using a lot less energy in 1890, London's coal fog notwithstanding. The really bad smog episodes were caused by temperature inversion laye...
Yes, you are right -- climate is always in a state of change. We have all sorts of evidence to support that idea. Nobody (in their right mind) denies ...
If this was an attempt a adolescent humor, it failed. No, it IS CO2, methane, CFCs, and other gases. Greed has been a feature of human beings from the...
Forget it. I've already seized, copyrighted, and registered all the Anglo Saxon words in English, whether they are in current use or not. "A, an, the"...
It has felt like ice fishing lately, lows in the 40s. I don't like horror movies. The production values key into my anxieties all too well. Sudden lou...
Scene on a locked psych ward... Ward attendant to psychiatrist: "What's the matter with that man, terrorizing his fellow psychos with such detailed hi...
Of course! If I wasn't so self-involved, I would have immediately recognized the needs of bat salvation missionaries. Memo to self: Check attic; if oc...
It's OK if they charge for the service--the exterminators aren't going to do it for nothing, after all. Bats are a social good -- they eat annoying in...
What? My pet peeves don't rule? I'm aghast!!! No one was "assigned" a sex (not talking about gender) at birth until that peculiar construction was pus...
While I'm on the topic of pet peeves... another irritation is the LGBTQ clump. I'd be happier if we went back to "gay and lesbian", "bisexual". and "t...
One of my pet peeves. Newborns are identified as male or female, they aren't arbitrarily assigned a sex. All this genderendering results in such pecul...
As well you should not. We do not know what malicious purposes were embedded in the core of the operating system when it was conceived. Sooner or late...
The meaning of the expression, "behaving like a bull in a china shop" is precisely the opposite of what the bull in the cartoon is doing. Picture a bi...
If you lived here, you wouldn't have bats in your attic. The B1M is one of my favorite sites. Here's a 10 minute program on Habitat 67 (Montreal World...
Children--including adolescents--could, of course, go to bed earlier. To that end, let's get rid of daylight savings time, which upsets us elderly and...
This is "small c" chance, not the "Big C" Chance of the Cosmos. That two people met, bred, and 9 months later you were born with a slide rule in one h...
You didn't ask me, but... It's not the same thing. If I read Clark rightly, our existence is the result of chance; we live our lives without "making m...
True for you, true for us all. Our lives begin and unfold when and where they do. But it's still your life in which your bunch of stuff happened, and ...
Quite interesting. My life doesn't have innate purpose, direction, or meaning either. What it has (what any life has) is a history, and I wanted to un...
It's been quite a while since I have heard alarming news about "murder hornets". Anyone run into any of them in the remote corners of TPF? Are they hi...
I don't want to take anything away from your affection for Machiavelli. His advice to princes has stood the test of time, But so have the works of pro...
Indeed. Just for the record, the art of mass manipulation was brought to modern form by Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 ? March 9, 1995) considered ...
ChatGPT suffers from plainly painful plodding literalism. If you ask it if mole sauce was any good, it would probably inform you about weird burrowing...
Google search found sufficiently tonguey tortures in sources like the Readers Digest and a 1909 joke book. ChatGPT did no better. “Six sick hicks nick...
They won't ask, they will tell. Administrative centers will be reduced to ashes before they land, and the first words out of their sound producing ori...
Westboro may not be the only group of hateful bastards, but they are well ahead in the race to prove their preeminent status in the HB category. Are s...
I loathe and abhor both the Islamic State and Westboro Baptist Church, but you know, I suppose, that WBC is basically a profoundly dysfunctional famil...
@"praxis" I greatly admire Dorothy Day, and find her writings of great value, particularly: The Long Loneliness (autobiography), Loaves and Fishes (ab...
They won't be normal, they will be as equal as the majority make it, within the legal framework. Complete equality, within the legal system or not, ge...
As Richard Feynman (nuclear physicist) said, "Nothing is mere". Natural selection has been at work from the getgo, about 3.7 billion years. You think ...
I entirely agree that trans people have the right to BE. Yes, there are exceptions illustrated by some species, but a rare deviation from the norm doe...
We did indeed. A good example of comedy that does or does not translate is Jerry Lewis. He was popular here with a lot of people (and disliked by othe...
I watched maybe 20 minutes of rerun. "Extravagant wedding" is a good way of putting it. King Charles is clearly tired, no fault of his -- waiting deca...
If copperhead snakes are hermaphrodites and green turtles change sex, how much relevance does that have to us? There are species that can regenerate l...
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