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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Doves are back. These lightly loaded peace-pigeons say little. https://64.media.tumblr.com/183ae545680077a51e04c0349ab8f288/7abd9e83094e6dba-32/s640x9...
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...
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...
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...
This what a rhino horn looks like: https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ob7m2s98/images/stencil/1000x1000/products/3363/10914/rhino_barry_stein_adult_large...
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...
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...
Have a proper urinal installed. In Toto. https://64.media.tumblr.com/3c1bf5821fde69e346b2951dc1ac00a9/1e91958d0efb1793-30/s1280x1920/595738b5a09f0e682...
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...
Yes, clubbing baby seals then eating poutine, French-Canadian crap traditionally made of limp French fries, stale cheese curds, ad covered with rancid...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
Here is a chart from VISUAL CAPITALIST showing what Ukraine imports or exports, and from/to whom. https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/upl...
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...
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...
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) ...
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...
As usual, the United States is worse: https://www.libraryjournal.com/binaries/content/gallery/Jlibrary/2020/04/literacycrisis/ljapril2020litcrisischar...
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...
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...
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...
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...
@"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...
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...
Sadly, President Biden didn't personally inform me of his atomic intentions. But we certainly would not necessarily know that nuclear policy had chang...
"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...
The flammability of depicting sex with children (not adolescents) is extremely high. It apparently does not make any difference, legally or philosophi...
I would go further and say that a certain degree of national pride (cultural heritage appreciation) is positive, desirable, even necessary. BUT, I wou...
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...
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,...
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...
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