Yes, it was in the Tower of London. One of them pecked on my boot. I don't think I've ever seen a raven in the US -- if I did, I didn't know it. I hav...
The ravens that I saw in England are very large birds, bigger than the crows I see around here. They are accustomed to humans milling around, like urb...
Last week I was at a church discussion group for which the the topic was racial discrimination. Someone asked the question, "Why do people practice di...
Manuel, don't take this too personally. Your post simply provided the opportunity to fulminate. Blessed are they who provide the opportunity to preach...
The Houyhnhnms designed ATMs with big buttons located on the ground. A larger, more intriguing question, however, is where did they put the money the ...
"Either way, the piece, “Untitled,” by John Andrew Perello, the graffiti artist known as JonOne, is now a magnet for selfies. And on social media, Sou...
I think the after you die bacteria, enzymes, creepy crawlies, and maybe larger animals break the body down into its most digestible forms and when tha...
The "art market" is not eternal. A lot of stuff has been bought at high prices, and may or may not hold value. "Past performance is no guarantee of fu...
That's very insightful. Yes, it probably is the horse's account. The rider here is a horse servant in traditional livery, kept around for his dainty b...
Sparta had a higher percentage of slaves per master than Athens. Does that speak well for Plato? (This is just getting back to the issue of master/sla...
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Look first to the society they lived in. Greece was not egalitarian. Privileged men played leading roles at the top of the heap with not too many in t...
Your paragraph perfectly captures the view of 'the elite'. I remember, with dismay, a professor at university (19th c. American lit) saying that liter...
Seats so far from the stage that it's the next best thing to not being there! Part of the problem is the rectangular design of a lot of concert barns ...
The Revolution has to occur before one can think about creating an economy based on voluntary cooperation. Without a prior revolution of thinking amon...
@"Schopenhauer1" Most of my work years were spent in non-enterprise operations: non-profit agencies, universities, and the like. Only occasionally did...
Antinatalism solves all problems by eventually eliminating the species that thinks about problems. I'm in favor of being. Were I in favor of non-being...
I'm not familiar with Henry George; I'll check him out. Are you familiar with Daniel DeLeon, an American socialist; started the Socialist Labor Party,...
One would hope that such an idea would be as disreputable as statism is to you. If "the revolution" was successful--and not just a rearrangement of th...
Good point, IF there is a relationship between the observer and the observed. Even in formal lab situations (with dogs, at least) it is hard to imagin...
American usage applies fanny to the buttocks. "She fell on her fanny". Fanny is also the short form of Frances (female name) now rare. I've never hear...
Every society has hardworking people in it, whether the society and its economy are primitive, pre-industrial, post-industrial, agrarian, nomadic capi...
The USSR was a monopolistic state capitalist organization. So, we know something about that kind of organization. Workers didn't have any more power t...
Absolutely. A socialist system would have to manage it's capital resources too -- mines, factories, land, ports, and so on. The difference is that soc...
Liebchen, you can subscribe to whatever system of classification you want. There are market research systems of classification that divide the populat...
The government and NGOs, as well as survey companies keep track of all sorts of statistics about stuff that can be counted. The government is the star...
Parsing out the share of GDP derived from arms with revenues of more than 1 billion dollars, and those with fractions of that is possible but I don't ...
I agree that the term "middle class" as tossed about in media and in political speeches is meaningless. Yes, it's a cudgel. It's also the case that a ...
The end goal is a decent life. Yes, the owner class has to go. Power differentials are a current obsession, and real enough. My reason for taking down...
Was it Lenin or Stalin who said, "Quantity has a quality all its own." I think if I went from a low 5 figure income (<25,000) to a 7 figure income of ...
Actually, a good share of Americans think they are Middle Class, despite their rather straitened circumstances. Commies (and sociologists) define "mid...
No, I won't read it. You read it. run it through your brain, and come up with an opinion. Then ask us if we can buy into your idea, or not. Posting a ...
Pigs and humans are different. Bees and alligators are very dissimilar, more than pigs and humans. Chickens and whales are different. Individually and...
Those don't look like "natural" or "naturalist" pigs. Of course, the pigs are not naturalists. Pigs are generally hard edged realists of the crassest ...
Pastor Bonhoeffer (German Lutheran pastor executed for his involvement in the plot against Hitler) advises us to beware of cheap grace, the kind just ...
The thing I don't like about your choice is that the pig's legs and head are minimized to an extreme degree, and the body is maximized to an extreme d...
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