@"Sime", you and ssu are in agreement. Absolutely. I am no longer up-to-date on Minnesota benefits, but 'welfare' for single adults with no children i...
So far, humans have traveled 250,000 miles from earth to the moon. Mars is about 34,000,000 miles away. The galaxy is 107,000 LIGHT YEARS in diameter....
I get that about Baker. Of course, on the Internet nobody knows for sure how much of what somebody says reflects their actual life and how much of it ...
I have found great pleasure in music written by people who have been dead for hundreds of years, whether that was sitting in a plush orchestra hall se...
Sex, race, ethnicity, religion, class, education, etc. are not reliable indicators of political or judicial views. Those factors, plus social and prof...
Conversely, there were a few Jews able to hide in plain sight because they were tall, blond, blue eyed, and very Aryan in appearance -- more so than m...
Yes, I know about the very large numbers of people killed by Stalin, and during the famine of the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward. There ar...
Most Americans work under the legal idea of "Employment at will", meaning one can just quit a job if one so wishes without any penalty (supposedly). T...
Saying that the Holocaust was not about racism, but man's inhumanity to man, is a relatively 'weak' statement, but not false. The Nazis were racist, b...
I regret their interest in PoMo. I want our intelligence services to be clear-eyed and rational, science based, and politically reliable. NoPoMo is be...
It is an ironic choice, the irony more visible to me than anyone else. I don't want to change horses mid stream, and this handle goes back to the firs...
Are you sure Baden is on the right hand of the throne? On the left hand side, I would think, with the damned and the banned--but in a management posit...
We could have an Asian trans-gender person; we could have an indigenous gay person, we could have a pissed off incel of whatever extraction. One barri...
Shoutbox production is appallingly low -- just disgraceful. People boxshout and then... nothing for hours and hours afterwards. Come on, people! What ...
I am declaring that this is abstract expression art, the title of which is "What did the galaxy ever do for you, anyway?" https://static01.nyt.com/ima...
The atoms of which you are composed will survive your death and go on to have all sorts of interesting adventures FAR FAR FAR into the future. And jus...
That would be bad. But the picture you paint is inverted, unlike the actual reality. The predatory parts of the medical establishment are the various ...
A lot of people perform A and B. C, less so. C takes time, ability, and effort. More people who are capable, though, could do more study, and should. ...
That is one of the tasks of the courts. The Supreme Court doesn't do trials. Their main concern is to review cases from the POV of procedure and const...
That's true in some situations; in others, it isn't. Race and gender do not matter when you are hiring a hundred teachers; just got the best you can. ...
The likelihood of the US Congress and 38 states approving a constitutional amendment repealing the Second Amendment and banning gun possession is zero...
Your opening post is a bit diffuse, but you do ask the perennial good questions. "The way things are", both the good and the bad, are a consequence of...
Tim, even though lots of people are anti-Israeli, it's OK to be on the side of the Israel. What isn't necessary is to bend over backwards to make a po...
There is absolutely nothing 'natural' about the SCOTUS; it's an appointed office, so everything about it is "artificial" by definition. The ethnicity,...
One of the issues in gun ownership is gun type. In many states quite a few hunt deer, ducks, geese, pheasants, turkeys, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, ...
The homicide rate is not at all uniform in 2017, varying from Louisiana, with 653 homicides--a rate of 12.4 per 100,000, to New Hampshire, with 17 hom...
One can be pro-Israel and still acknowledge that the Palestinians have gotten, are getting, and will probably continue to get a raw deal. They are in ...
It has taken a long time for stores selling adult merchandise to improve the sales experience. The shopping experience prior to the sale, has always b...
Of course. I respect scientists, science, and research. The fact remains that they could not examine the subjects because they had been dead for thous...
We hope that you don't get bushwhacked while you bushwalk. Just following your lead. The brain that births bright ideas also guides the batter's swing...
Activities that are habitual, routinized, directed by "muscle memory" and so on can certainly be disrupted by the interference of thought. Mindfulness...
There are two questions here: One is: Were hunters / gatherers smarter than us, or not? Two is: Can we determine the answer to question One? Answer On...
We don't care. So, at least Crabtree based his guess on something in particular, though it isn't at all convincing. Look, we don't know whether people...
and this is how Hollywood represents an unwanted coital interloper, thinking somebody's condom broke, and wondering if that was a birth control pill o...
I would have linked to this song by the children's poet, Shel Silverstein. Polly in a Porny must be one of the few songs that hasn't been uploaded to ...
More Polly in a Porny from Hanover. Actually, most people masturbate on long-distance bus routes, though maybe not while sitting on the fat lady's amp...
I like trains very much--freight, light rail, commuter, elevated, subway, narrow gauge, trans-continental passenger, whatever. But... I'm gay AND old,...
Chicago has the "El" (elevated) but part of it is underground. It even has a paradoxical aboveground tunnel (it runs above the Illinois Institute of T...
He must have been right about the benefits of the graham cracker. In 1850 the world population was 1.2 billion. After he introduced his famous cracker...
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