Yes Google Translate has Yiddish. It said the phrase means "Think good fat be good." Several supercomputers have been spinning their disk drives tryin...
IF the missile's command /control system were damaged, then the least that one would get is an impact-driven release of plutonium--never a good thing....
Too much picky twingy twangy. Perfect pitch: throwing a banjo into the garbage can without hitting the rim. Tried this joke on banjo players; they did...
Man, you are one deep dude! (Or in Esperanto viro, vi estas unu profunda ulo!) The slur, "Man, you are one deep dud!" comes out: "Homo, vi estas unu p...
But if some Americans firmly believe abortion is murder, that matters. Their opinion shouldn't be brushed aside in the name of someone's privacy. I ma...
We are shocked -- shocked!! -- that union organizing is going on in this bar! It probably was; bars were an essential working class meeting place prio...
Yes, absolutely. They aren't all religious in the same way. Religious people hold a range of opinions on what is moral and what is not moral. Secular ...
The CITIZENS UNITED decision was handed down in 2010. Apparently times haven't changed. Laws and constitutional amendments may very well be a concreti...
Your statement seems more like a play on words than a serious objection. Is a fertilized egg, a non-viable fetus, or a near term fetus, a person? Ther...
Well, yes. Let people decide -- that's what Roe vs. Wade established. Same for several other private activities. The personal sphere is private and no...
Very rarely (ever?) do I feel a need to defend Streetlite. He surely could have phrased it less abrasively. I think what he meant was that Ginsberg sh...
SC justices tend to hang on until the the grim reaper takes them away. There had been discussions about her leaving sooner but she refused, Strategic ...
Feed to meat efficiency, anyone? Bear in mind that the feed efficiency of animals depends on whether we are talking about a live, cackling chicken or ...
We have both gotten used to being voices howling in the wilderness. We wilderness howlers are dismissed out of hand, even if our howled message is rig...
Yes: The only war is the class war. We have nothing to lose but our chains and a world to gain. Check. Maybe where you live, the rhetoric of "One has ...
Paraphrasing the ur-leftist himself, "the conditions of production determine the conditions of society". The upheavals in changing production, say fro...
I was thinking more of mental preparation. Really big catastrophes leave little opportunity for meaningful preparation. Like, the dinosaurs should hav...
What's not to be believed? They had a map and everything. It's a well known fact that zombies can not climb stairs. It all fits together so it must be...
A small amount of left over rice by its very poverty of quantity becomes impure, suspect, and unwholesome. The last can on the shelf, the last slice o...
What would really work would be some null-entropy bins that keep food fresh for extremely long periods of time. A 50 year old perfect strawberry. The ...
A drainage ditch, for sure. In some ways "life is limbo". It's kind of fluxy. We might get to experience prolonged periods of placid pleasantness, but...
That seems not to have worked in any of the famous food famines. But giving credit to you, it's one of the reasons diets don't work as well as they sh...
One should store food one actually likes. No bags of dried beans for me. Some Bush's Grillin Beans would be far more appealing. Quality sardines, plea...
The L vs R conflict was at one time fairly clear and structured. Labor vs capital, for instance. It isn't the case that labor and capital are now unit...
Defining "the left" and "the far left" is like using a cheap microscope. The image jerks in and out of focus at the slightest touch; artifacts of ligh...
Certainly, mathematics at any level can be taught in such a way that students are permanently turned off the subject. The same goes for history, liter...
Drug buyers coming and going. perhaps? Communist cell members delivering explosives and subversive pamphlets? Maybe your neighbors can't decide whethe...
Of course you do, and it's a significant part of 'who you are'. There are many significant parts of who you are. I generally dislike identity politics...
Horse shit, of course. An incompetent Latino writer will do a much worse job writing novels about the Latino experience than a competent writer from s...
Good job -- the opportunity to skewer two semi-sacred cows with one goring. You were doing fine until you said, "I do not know what it feels like to b...
Do you agree that birds, for example, possess knowledge encoded in their genes? The "human exception" tendency prefers to think that we learn everythi...
Capacity is not equivalent to achievement; so, no: the capacity to learn language is not knowledge. Chidden who are deaf from birth (and are otherwise...
Mr. Carlson is just being fashion forward for his next job. White scrota are now seen as a sign of white supremacy to fashionistas to whom Tucker will...
By the time we are old enough to make half-ways decent subjects in the psych lab, we have already absorbed a lot of learning. A two-year old child is ...
Do babies "know" anything? The neonatal brain is set up to acquire information, which it does immediately to a very limited degree. So, babies do not ...
What does "Too Much Magic" mean? In William Howard Kunstler's view, ""Magic" is all the high-end technology (that may or may not exist) that somehow m...
You are probably right that "a drastic reduction if economic activity" (which pretty much covers everything) is probably the only possible plan that c...
Well, "Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun," per Noel Coward. Apparently they are impervious to heat. In the mangrove swamps Where the py...
We white folks whose testicles descended from Northern Europe would be in a real fix. Our fried hides would horrify the rest of the -- melanin-rich --...
And in 1945 was a bomb! She definitely livened up Alamogordo, NM, otherwise voted "most boring shit hole E of Bakersfield, CA. But I thought the Alamo...
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