Absolutely. It's also the case that the elite effectively throttles any meaningful move toward income redistribution through progressive (rather than ...
In the end, after the long-fanged beasts have toppled you from the bike, stopped barking, and begun to feed (on you), whether it is the thrill of the ...
Bonus Dog Poem “A Dog, on His Master” by Billy Collins. As young as I look, I am growing older faster than he, seven to one is the ratio they tend to ...
“The Revenant” By Billy Collins I am the dog you put to sleep, as you like to call the needle of oblivion, come back to tell you this simple thing: I ...
They don't "hate bicycles", they think of bicyclists whizzing by as prey. BTW, I agree with you on the pedigree business. Very popular dogs like retri...
One of the dog problems I see is that a lot of dogs people get are rescue dogs what have been poorly cared for and not socialized. There is a window d...
I'll stick with the idea that the US is a one-party state but I agree that the Republicans' behavior has been very destructive. To pick up a strand I ...
With reference to the clip from Serial Mom above ... Javi, have you seen (or maybe more to the point, heard of) any of John Waters' films? Here is a l...
Horses are not to be trusted. They are fickle, devious, neurotic creature -- made that way by their cowboy ropin, ridin, fuck-it or shoot-it cryptofas...
I'll step in here to provide a negative connotation about Hanovo's garb: those are really quite ugly boots (maybe from the Salvation Army?) and why wo...
more than :grin: but not quite :rofl: Today the Republicans are the wicked ones. Some of us are old enough to remember when the Democrats were the par...
Exactly. If we elected an entirely new House, Senate, and President with no party affiliation it would not be long before some sort pf parties formed....
A one party state isn't of necessity repressive. For one thing, the two wingéd Party of Business is under no internal threat. Neither is the US at ris...
A lot of people don't vote -- and my guess is that there is no barrier preventing them for doing so, EXCEPT they don't see any point to choosing betwe...
Presumably political parties exist because portions of the electorate -- society --have opposing as well as allied interests which a political party c...
Slang should be taught on "need-to-know" and "just-in-time" basis. Knowing that Australians call their fowl "chooks" won't help you until you get to A...
That might present a few technical difficulties! I never saw this Patterson character -- maybe it didn't play well in the states. We have real live yo...
Dead at 89. I always thought a little Dame Edna was enough. "Bewigged, bejeweled and bejowled, Mr. Humphries’s creation was one of the longest-lived c...
Professor Chomsky: Is there such a thing as "artificial intelligence" residing in a server farm? Are the AI programs "intelligent" or are they merely ...
You might want to focus your question a bit more. Chomsky has long described American politics as a one-party state. Dems and Reps form two wings of p...
I liked your bird video. I didn't quite smile, but always find smart birds doing smart-bird stuff interesting. The thing I like about this bird patien...
Great film! I saw it back in the '80s (and again since then). I liked the Philip Glass score, and the content captures the 'life out of balance' theme...
It's worse than 'absurd'. That's one fast fashion dump, likely one of many. "Fast fashion" is a nice term for junk -- the stuff may be up to the minut...
There was wide-spread drought in the US last year. The Mississippi River was so low barge traffic was getting stuck on the river bottom--much like the...
Waking up to a nuclear warning is too much like a nightmare come true. On the other hand, a tree full of North American cicadas is about as bad as a n...
I think the shopping cart question was buried in the dust. I have a bright red Target shopping cart in my back yard. One night I was returning from th...
Granted that setting up a commune is comparatively easy. It's also the case that communes often fall apart. I don't know what the history of kibbutzim...
Our prime example of communism was begun in an only slightly industrialized country (Russia) with a very long history of despotic rule. Despotism was ...
A 'buffet' is more about how the food is served, rather than how much. A buffet is self-serve, but it doesn't have to involve a lot of food. However, ...
Sounds to me like they laid on plenty of food for the most important meal of the day. The refined ground floor terrace and conservatory staff dislike ...
Correct. the Seven Holy Virtues are chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility. I thank heaven that I've been an abjec...
Sensible psychiatrist! Are you sure a 48 hour hold is long enough? We don't actually know the location @"Hanover" operates from -- he could be a long-...
Dead rat fragrance can be provided on the scratch and sniff card, the tool Waters used for the olfactory dimension in his film, POLYESTER. Maybe you s...
Why Latin? Akkadian or Sanskrit would work, too. As a cost factor, trained centipedes are cheaper and scarier than union cockroaches. Skip the matted ...
Thank you. Yes, I could have googled the image, but the point was to share the image, and less important to find out what it was. Its design is severa...
Came across this photo without any information attached. Anyone know who the manufacturer is and what year it was made? I like its elegant design. htt...
I am very familiar with the viewpoint discussed in the article and I reject it as being, well, just plain stupid. It falls into the same category as s...
Dearest Javi, please don't go there! Blackmail doesn't have racist denotations or connotations any more than "black hole", "black board", "black top",...
There are about 272,000 households in Boston, and about 66% have (on average) 1 car. If the 179,500 car owners were the only drivers in Bean Town, tra...
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