Mustard and pork were made for each other -- a sharp, horseradish coarse ground. With sweet potato or mashed white potatoes and pork gravy. Alas, I ne...
Yes, I should have acknowledged your good point about lives saved. Still, it was a vicious affair. To the extent that a given war involves two (or mor...
the Balkans are an insoluble simmering cesspool of dissatisfactions. They (various) have had conflict for quite some time. Tito's regime kept a lid on...
No: It isn't a 'default state'. "Depression" describes a reduction in physical, cognitive and emotional functioning. It is a disease state, ranging fr...
My theory is that as soon as the electricity grid goes down, the batteries fail, and they've used up all the drugs and booze, they will turn to cannib...
Which knife edge of precocity are you most concerned about? Nuclear annihilation? Conventional world war? Global overheating? The Black Plague (or its...
It would appear that even a 60 cycle hum has its very regular ups and downs. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_eZmKGTaqgB0/TVAtGsaT2wI/AAAAAAAAKJU/VT...
In the past (like... 40 years ago) people often used 'the' when referencing--'the Ukraine'. Fox News says "The Ukraine” was previously used as a short...
It might be "game over", and Trump never faded into the sewage lagoon where he had been consigned; he keeps resurfacing. Stephen Marche's The Next Civ...
Some days I think that would be unfortunate, and other days I think "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out". E Pluribus Unum has worked, and ...
Reading what you wrote, seems to me I heard Putin say that it was the Bolsheviks who granted 'independence' to provinces of the old tsarist empire. My...
@"et al" Were the United States to invade Canada, capturing Ottawa early on and decapitating the government, we would probably be successful. (Just th...
You were asked and you gave. Blessings on you. Given his recent good fortune, it would not be unreasonable to expect at least a gesture of reciprocity...
There are all these great songs from the '60s, but sometimes I just can't match the face of the vocalist to the sound he sings. Take House of the Risi...
Jesus is having nothing to do with this. Not hard to swallow, but difficult to force it. @"Frank"'s pronouns are indecently indefinite, Biden being th...
This is something else that Sigmund Freud got wrong. It isn't women who have penis envy, it is men. We all want to know how well we hang in comparison...
It is a Kinseyism that a lot of people are neither heterosexual or homosexual, they are bi-sexual. They are said to have satisfactory sex with both th...
La Cage, as a film, contained no actual spontaneous behavior of any kind. It employed a fair amount of exaggeration for effect, but sure, the gay char...
Some very campy gay man (can't remember) said "I never had a closet to hide in" because he was a campy child. This sort of thing was just outside my c...
I'd be a lot happier with gaydar if it were more reliable. Like radar, it's a great advance over flying around in the dark. One might use 'gaydar' as ...
Certainly didn't mean to suggest that. We are everything between scalp and toe nails, all connected to the brain. l The existence of a 'self', the bra...
I've come across Walzer in decades past (in the pages of Z Magazine--which seems to have bit the dust). My dim recollection is that he was difficult t...
Do you think your brain is something other than you? I am my body, my brain. What my brain thinks, I think. Many of the brain's activities are not con...
I assume that you are NOT suggesting that William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), Romantic poet, was the cause of pain and war. So, some other sort of roman...
"It's not even past" Faulkner said. But yes, past polarization fades over time. Black-white relations in the US have always been polar, slave and mast...
I think we are much more polarized. There was some polarization in the 1960s. Vietnam was the principle locus. Also hair length, hippie clothing and l...
It appears to belong to the Christian / Liberty-obsessed sphere, a vaguely defined area of the right/far right political zone (this scholarly conclusi...
Does Walzer really think that any leader would do that? Given the notion that power corrupts, it seems highly unlikely that any leader with sufficient...
Theologians have talked about "dirty hands" too. The hands that perform works of mercy are often 'dirty' in the sense that they have performed wrongfu...
Are you suffering from species dysphoria? Have you been thinking of using CRISPR to become a transpecial? There are support groups for that. I think I...
This approach will definitely not avoid moral reprehensibility. "Lifestyle" involves choices that affect others in material ways. This woman is living...
What sort of 'horrible and grotesque' ways of living are you thinking of that would not pose moral problems? Some people do live horrible and grotesqu...
Stephen Marche (The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future) said that "'the reduction of empathic distress' the basic inhumanity that the...
Perhaps. But the point is, intelligence is primarily demonstrated through performance. Doing nothing distinguishes neither intelligence or a lack ther...
So, intelligence is the ability to analyze a complex problem, create at a solution, and then perform the solution. Intelligence is analytical, creativ...
Insightful observations about extraordinarily complex behaviors and mental processes. Good observational skills can be developed, but they also requir...
Yes, absolutely, Homosexual men are definitely the most sensible of men. Some gay men are even more macho than straight men, but maximum-machismo is s...
Right. People generally don't shower marginalized groups with positive traits. Generally the opposite. But marginalized groups can shower positive tra...
Why the hell not? I agree. It seems like "delusional" is our default state. There are convenient delusions, necessary delusions, harmful delusions, an...
No, there is ample, hard evidence that life sucks. Reality is a bitch and then you die. And the dead stay dead, nothing more. So in the meantime, gath...
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