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With satellite and drone coverage, there shouldn't be any doubt in anyone's mind about the whereabouts of the 40-mile convoy. The contents might be do...
March 11, 2022 at 02:27
There are no unbiased news sources, as a general rule. So, be aware of the bias and then calculate how much to discount. Don't we all! There are a few...
March 11, 2022 at 00:57
Here's a suggestion to consider: Separate the question of whether God exists from the question of whether there is an afterlife. God may or may not ex...
March 11, 2022 at 00:45
Some of it is alleged to have 'divine inspiration'. Some of it is purported to be history. Some of it is liturgy (e.g. Psalms). the Bible is a collect...
March 10, 2022 at 20:18
Squirrel eyes are... what, semi-forward facing, semi side facing. They have to have good spacial perception to be able to leap at high speed from bran...
March 10, 2022 at 05:30
Doves are back. These lightly loaded peace-pigeons say little. https://64.media.tumblr.com/183ae545680077a51e04c0349ab8f288/7abd9e83094e6dba-32/s640x9...
March 10, 2022 at 05:03
chickens but not owls. Horses, zebras, and whales. Kangaroo eyes face forward. Hmmm, curious.
March 09, 2022 at 06:54
It is interesting how far forward on the 'snout' the eyes are located, or is it how large it's 'forehead' is? And per Muybridge's photos of horses, it...
March 09, 2022 at 03:09
Pastry or pottery. Not real, in any case. The jpeg file of an real rhino, horn and all, was apparently defective -- it wouldn't upload. The time budge...
March 09, 2022 at 02:09
Just paint it black. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg
March 08, 2022 at 18:11
Furious proletarian women messing around at a forge is never a good sign. Which reminds me of Ambrose Bierce's definition of the GARTER, n. An elastic...
March 08, 2022 at 06:36
This what a rhino horn looks like: https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ob7m2s98/images/stencil/1000x1000/products/3363/10914/rhino_barry_stein_adult_large...
March 08, 2022 at 06:17
Conflict is a constant in the world order, new or old. There are political / economic / ethnic / religious / cultural fault lines all over the globe t...
March 08, 2022 at 04:04
No, I'm not in favor of people having sex changes. Sex exchanges are something else altogether. Catheterization is unpleasant so that's out. No assist...
March 07, 2022 at 23:49
Have a proper urinal installed. In Toto. https://64.media.tumblr.com/3c1bf5821fde69e346b2951dc1ac00a9/1e91958d0efb1793-30/s1280x1920/595738b5a09f0e682...
March 07, 2022 at 22:50
Sit.
March 07, 2022 at 05:19
Well... that was BEFORE there was something the matter with Kansas.
March 06, 2022 at 23:43
Until well into adulthood I though brussels sprouts grew in the dirt as little cabbages. I was shocked--shocked!--when I discovered the truth,
March 06, 2022 at 23:41
No, no, children. Scotch Tape comes from Saint Paul, MN -- because Minnesotans have never been able to hold it together without it. https://www.mnoped...
March 06, 2022 at 23:29
If these big Japanese Jura spiders appear in Minnesota, I'll have none of it. I'm moving to northern Nunavut.
March 06, 2022 at 14:47
Yes, clubbing baby seals then eating poutine, French-Canadian crap traditionally made of limp French fries, stale cheese curds, ad covered with rancid...
March 06, 2022 at 07:03
Think nothing of it. Elizabethan English didn't come along for another 1600 years, but everybody in the Bible speaks it, with a Shakespearean accent. ...
March 06, 2022 at 06:50
They will, true. But when do oil companies not make money? Oil is in demand everywhere, and the oil companies are located around the world wherever th...
March 06, 2022 at 03:15
Here's a fuck up: Ukraine is a grain exporter to the Mediterranean basin, through its Black Sea ports, which Russia is busy closing off.
March 06, 2022 at 02:16
Ah, I wasn't thinking that trade relationships would or did trump security policy. I posted the chart just to give people like me a clearer idea of th...
March 05, 2022 at 21:08
This is a curable deficiency: Dignified, unlike the cornball piece sung to a British drinking song (Anacreon in Heaven) O say, can you see By the dawn...
March 05, 2022 at 21:01
Here is a chart from VISUAL CAPITALIST showing what Ukraine imports or exports, and from/to whom. https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/upl...
March 05, 2022 at 20:00
Good point. But entertainment is easier than instruction. I don't want to claim that in "the good old days" news media were all about instruction. Wha...
March 05, 2022 at 08:02
Always bear in mind that most of the media are for profit enterprises. They are not staffed by philosophers (like that would help) or public intellect...
March 05, 2022 at 06:59
A small percentage are fleeing to Russia, mostly from the Donbas region immediately adjacent to Russia. Those living in Kviv or Lviv, for example, A) ...
March 05, 2022 at 00:47
You know already it because you posted this quote, but false fear and false hope do not make things better. Truth matters, even if it is an early casu...
March 05, 2022 at 00:40
As usual, the United States is worse: https://www.libraryjournal.com/binaries/content/gallery/Jlibrary/2020/04/literacycrisis/ljapril2020litcrisischar...
March 05, 2022 at 00:18
Fortunately I didn't have everything I described. Oddly, I've never had herpes simplex (cold sores). I've had nonspecific urethritis and it appeared y...
March 04, 2022 at 17:13
This is a consequence of not dying young. The older you get, the fewer of one's past dates, flames, friends, lovers, spouses, fellow workers, worst en...
March 04, 2022 at 03:33
I was promiscuous in the 70s and 80s both. Charles Shively, a Harvard guy, wrote an essay for Gay Community New of Boston about 'promiscuity as a revo...
March 04, 2022 at 03:25
Some disambiguation is needed here. A lie is not the same thing as a myth. A theory, true or mistaken, isn't myth. The idea that disease was spread th...
March 04, 2022 at 01:38
@"et al" It won't interest anyone outside of the small circle of opera lovers, but... Never mind nukes. Anna Netrebko, very big-name Russian diva, jus...
March 03, 2022 at 16:46
Yes: MAD is still crazy after all these years. I'm not so worried about V. Putin saving face as I am his being (or feeling) cornered or trapped by NAT...
March 03, 2022 at 03:27
Sadly, President Biden didn't personally inform me of his atomic intentions. But we certainly would not necessarily know that nuclear policy had chang...
March 02, 2022 at 23:53
"myth" as in "mythos" "myth" may be used as a fancy Greek term for a lie, but that isn't its only (or main) meaning. Lies, on the other hand, are deli...
March 02, 2022 at 17:28
The flammability of depicting sex with children (not adolescents) is extremely high. It apparently does not make any difference, legally or philosophi...
March 02, 2022 at 06:29
I would go further and say that a certain degree of national pride (cultural heritage appreciation) is positive, desirable, even necessary. BUT, I wou...
March 02, 2022 at 00:33
Hey - that Video was validated by the BBC's Anti-Deception Orifice and they say it was definitely done in southern somewhere. Ukraine? Iowa? Australia...
February 28, 2022 at 17:37
I don't know either. But he should be. I liked the band name, The Dead South.
February 28, 2022 at 07:22
Something for @"Hanover" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY
February 28, 2022 at 05:39
2 lousy onion rings? These wimpy philistines. Of course not! Grip the onion firmly in hand (finger tips folded under), seize a cleaver, aim carefully,...
February 28, 2022 at 05:29
"I never goosed a single step" -- line from "I Was Not a Nazi Polkahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmhgcC5dYkE, Chad Mitchell Trio
February 28, 2022 at 05:16
Hey! Limburger cheese makers have enough public relations problems without you adding more. Here's a superior sandwich: 2 slices of high quality rye b...
February 28, 2022 at 05:09
Heading for the last roundup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeRBqh1bkvA
February 27, 2022 at 23:47
90 is the new 75, so in 15 years I'll be 90--the same age I am now. But I should be dead by then. The old dead is very much like the new dead.
February 27, 2022 at 23:17