My gratitude for your invaluable assistance knows no bounds, but you left out the suffering of @"Universeness" who was absolutely verklempt over the o...
Rather than arguing whether one is better or worse than somebody else, it might be better to look at the assault pragmatically. Maybe you had it comin...
No. Dogs don't become bitter cranks. They quite often get bitter and resentful when they have to get off the couch, don't get a share of raw hamburger...
Sometimes names become a liability. One can imagine how anxious I. G. Farben was to change their name after all that unflattering news about Zyklon B....
A person is an indivisible whole of body and mind. Parts can be missing -- a leg, speech ability, vision, and so on. A person ceases to exist when the...
Maybe some popes were hoping to be the Fourth Person of the Trinity, Father, Pope, Son, Holy Ghost, an elected incarnation. The Protestants have plent...
I'm not Catholic, but I deeply and most sincerely hope that the Pope is entirely different from God. As I understand it (several times removed from a ...
Reminds me of a phrase, screwed blued and tattooed. Not sure what 'that means, 3 meanings cited by the urban dictionary: Refers the leather tanning pr...
The Clornpone chorus was imbedded in my brain in 1958 and has haunted me ever since, It's is the only good number in the musical Li'l Abner, but the A...
"To hell with Adenauer" -- Konrad Adenauer was the first chancellor of Germany after WWII -- serving from 1949 to 1963 with the CDU. Even before the e...
My impression is that he was a difficult person, i.e., an asshole. I had a ride in a Tesla; it was not a remarkable experience in any way, shape, mann...
Some of my best friends are well off in the same way you are. They went to college, kept their noses to the grindstone, married, had children, paid fo...
Quite wonderful satire. Thank you very much! Here's my favorite TWELVE DAYS satire -- it's a little edgy. Written in 1963 by a trio of young guys. I i...
If anything is complex, it's economics and economic behavior. It's a game with 8 billion players and conflicting rules, crooked cues and elliptical bi...
The current rate of saving as a share of disposable income is 5.1 percent, down from 10.5 percent in the covid year of 2021. 5% isn't that bad, 10% is...
"A rising tide lifts all boats" is a positive sounding non-inferential statement. Not if the boats have holes in them. Not if the tide rushes in as a ...
If we develop the means to tap useful extra-planetary resources (on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, etc.) there is no reason not to. However, justification...
True enough, ice cream scoopers are workers (working class) BUT so are engineers working for medium to large engineering companies. IF you owned the e...
A happy new year to you, when it comes! You have been gone on long travels with much travail through the badlands. The roads were long and hot when no...
Sci-fi doomsday stories almost always have a surviving remnant. One that did focus on the remnant was A Canticle for Liebowitz--a great novel. A nucle...
The 1950s get a deserved bad rap (McCarthyism, nuclear proliferation, the Military-Industrial Complex, et al) and an undeserved one (remember the Beat...
At my age, anything longer than short-term survival has been foreclosed. I could manage a slow exit (weeks, months) or I could arrange a faster one du...
The post-capitalist space-faring vision of Gene Roddenberry in Star Trek, and a few thousand other sci-fi authors all make "a giant leap for mankind" ...
I think it might be comatose from morbid obesity. I don't like pigs, or dogs, or people, that are so fat the lard has buried their features. This is a...
To start from the position that our personal identity is largely consistent over our life time makes practical sense because we cannot monitor ourselv...
Excellent idea IF there are sufficiently light and very strong materials to meet the design and budgetary requirements. The image of a "cable" is prob...
Stomping on somebody's skull hard enough to squish out the brains seems to require more brawn than your typical female has. No impossible, of course. ...
The big problem in flying to the moon is escaping earth's gravity well. No matter who you are, you have to speed up to at least 44,000 kph. Having acc...
I "liked" the story, not that throat cutting is so likable; more that the story is so evocative. "Kherson" is the key word in the story -- retroactive...
Which is why you are still here. People drown in swimming pools, of course, but natural water bodies tend to be devious and deceitful. Many who went d...
I don't know who Joe Rogan or Siddhartha Kara are. The stuff we use is, in many ways, not cheap at all. The plastic bag from the grocery might be chea...
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) described by John Williams as one of the great American composers of light orchestral music. Arthur Fiedler and the Boston ...
Chaucer might have suggested the big O two or three times, but John Donne doesn't seem like the type. He was, after all, a priest and priests are not ...
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