Of course it's possible. BUT, the politics of Europe were unstable before the assassination. To some extent Serbia provided more of a pretext for powe...
I think it is inappropriate to take concepts developed to deal with personal and community health (like harm reduction applied to sex or injectable dr...
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Don't believe it! Shelf-stable foods (like canned ravioli) remain wholesome (if it was in the first place) for a long time provided the can itself is ...
Being an urban sophisticate, he probably doen't eat cold Chef Boyardee out of a can. The only person I knew who did that was an urban oof from Brookly...
On the one hand... Why are you telling me about flushing toilets in Psycho? On the other hand... That's very interesting. I suppose the sound of a toi...
I especially like the dog reading on its back. The literary cat is good too. If somebody breaks into your house and steals these two items, you'll kno...
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It's a great mercy that this is no longer my problem. My successors in sex education did pretty much the same thing as I did, but then the treatment o...
Good god! Mercifully. Kitsch. But you don't have to throw them away. Once upon a time it cost a to of money to go to Hawaii and few proles ever did. O...
As representative examples of TPF members, we would like to know how many pieces of kitsch you own. Just in case you don't know, kitsch = a low-brow s...
Well there it is. Scones are the root of the problem. I've never seen any justification for scones' existence. They aren't much better than what in th...
A general term which covers privatization, cuts in public services, and the like is "neoliberalism". It is perhaps most popular among conservatives, b...
On the public radio program The World A Turkish commentator noted the improved building codes, and then surmised that endemic corruption in building a...
Granted. Good arguments can be made for and against reparations. I have lots of doubts about reparations because there are philosophical and practical...
I find it somewhat questionable when people come forward perhaps 50 years after being fondled, seduced, or raped and file criminal charges or sue the ...
Establishing criminality in the case of legally authorized activity is difficult. Responsibility, sure. Guilt not so much. Here's a more contemporary ...
Were we to have a fair economic system, then a good share of the wealth the 1% has accumulated in just the last 40 years -- at the expense of the larg...
Of course we inherit all sorts of biological traits, but privilege isn't one of them. What gives a person privilege is money. If I take away every las...
I agree, but how long is "the present"? I consider at least the last 125 years to constitute our material "present". The modern age of technology, ind...
Contrary to fact... https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/84rsDkRvcam5oZAC5gDA58CJoyS3R7oxWDt1BejPbtNEsyL2XLrG1gsRsAv1P78k8LvBATfS9pr26z7guOHAJ0tAof...
Of the three - Erdogan, Assad, Putin - Assad has the worst tyranny score (# of atrocities per square km times years). Putin's score is lower because R...
Well, yes. What's the point of being a powerful authority if you can't decide what is true? "We'll decide what the Truth is, thank you, and perhaps we...
Great! My bus today passed a new Dunkin' Donuts on Snelling Avenue in St. Paul -- I was happy to see it, since they don't have a big presence here. Gl...
No you don't get it. Your schedule indicates that the donuts aren't going to be made until 1:00 in the afternoon. The best sales period (early morning...
OUCH! That's pretty painful. The vision of a better, more humane - human - society comes from a) criticism of the existing society, and speculation ab...
Well! I would have made a great joke if you hadn't already told it! Thanks a lot! Wasn't the "Protestant work ethic" an effort to make the mundane mea...
Yes, that's what really counts in the marketplace. The market place is very big and billions of people do their material thing there and there everyth...
Many socialists either came from the working class, as I did, or strongly identify with the class that does the work. However, a critical task of "rev...
Wait a minute. When did "speculation about the nature of existence and metaphysics" have great appeal? What exactly are you referencing here? Literatu...
A great hotdog should be grilled outdoors. The charred surface adds the perfect amount of carcinogens, which with the nitrates already there, is toxic...
Limburger cheese (soft, very earthy), braunschweiger (liverwurst), raw onion, on rye. Even in Germanish Minnesota, actual pumpernickel is all but non-...
I've always preferred the "sex first, lengthy conversation later" approach. Unless a really good conversation came first. Then I'd skip over the sex p...
Does steamé refer to the heating of the bun or the wiener (I suppose they didn't want to use the German word)? Toasted bun? Yes, some deviants do that...
On closer inspection of the dusty sub-basement archived memory banks, I now remember it was "After Don Quixote" what is there?" By the way, it seems l...
Thanks for that, Javi. The Spanish I hear most often is that of recent arrivals (frequently undocumented) from Mexico and Central America, more often ...
As in, "Get the led owt of yor as"? Ar we redy tu swich tu simplifyd speleen? NAUGHT! The irregular spelling of English preserves some of the thrillin...
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