My first and second grade classroom (1951-52) was very similar to this one -- iron and wood desks screwed to the rails; wood floors, dim overhead ligh...
Been reading the Beats. Beatniks. The beats were a 1940s - 1960s thing. Allen Ginzburg -- who howled on their knees in the subway and were dragged off...
The EU should hire one of the crack hit squads from Israel who would make sure Donald Trump never set foot in the White House again. They could take c...
Achieving behavior change for public health benefit is always a long row to hoe. "Eliminate Smoking" has been the public health goal for decades. Stat...
We Geezers are cranky because... a) gravity b) the unbearable spinning cosmos c) decreased muscle strength causes us to lose our grips and increases o...
Let me clarify a point: There is a great deal of difference in quantity and quality between a low level of inequality and an extremely high level of i...
No need to add to the already celestial-sized choir singing the praises of protecting the assets and asses of the rich. There are some very significan...
We are social animals with a fairly wide range of sociability, but we all normally start in groups, and we always require groups, however much we tend...
It's actually worse than taxpayers paying for military might, industry, and government. "Labor produces all wealth." Period. Working people -- whereve...
Martin Luther said it was better to be ruled by a smart pagan than a dumb Christian. Who, pray tell, expects politicians to have philosophical sophist...
Oops, didn't read the article very carefully. Well, never mind. Critical Race Theory (CRT) presents a different two-sided problem. On the one hand, Bl...
There are, in fact, two sides to the holocaust -- perpetrators on one side, victims on the other, but they are so closely connected one can not tell o...
You are obsessed with the National Defense Education Act and Eisenhower's speech on the Military-Industrial Complex. The changes that you lament (it s...
Mussolini did invent fascism (an old Roman symbol, the fasces (a bundle of wooden rods and an ax blade). It was a symbol of power and authority -- bel...
@"I like sushi". A side note: Prior to the Nazis, (1920s) the term "race" was still used the way "ethnic" is used now. The French and Finns might each...
The contrast between patriotism (good) and nationalism (bad) is illustrative. I don't know how one could be a patriot and not be a nationalist as well...
Sort of like this cleaned up joke: If a lawyer and a lobbyist committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, which one would die first? Who ...
Kangaroos probably have an unusually strong death wish, caused by their colonization by white people and their infernal combustion engines. Colonialis...
I saw a black dog on the sidewalk, lying down but trying to move get up. It was disturbing. On closer examination it turned out to be a black plastic ...
it is true that women's movements came well before two-income families. The rhetoric of women's liberation was in place by "1958", your preferred wate...
Famines are usually caused by politics. Failed or non-existent governments, incompetent or corrupt politicians, liars, thieves, knaves, and scoundrels...
Talking about X doesn't automatically mean you are deflecting Y, rendering Y invisible, denying Y, and so on. X and Y are separate topics. Black on bl...
Hennepin County (where I live--population 1.3 million) collects $60,000,000 in (mostly) traffic related fines. 17% of the total is a result of moving ...
In 1990 the population of New Orleans was 497,000. In 1910 it was 343,000; today it is 384,000. In addition, the racial and economic mix has changed c...
Well, the rate of "cleared cases" is an important number for public safety. If few murder/manslaughter cases are cleared, it means that individuals wh...
Like 5 per 100,000? Maybe nationally, but not by state, and not by city. Here: The murder rate varies from 1 or 2 per 100,000 on up. https://upload.wi...
Most crimes are prevented by people feeling the need to be law-abiding. That's true for every community. Most people are law-abiding. If someone isn't...
Slavery may be an ultimate--but distant--cause of blacks circumstances. The efforts of (mostly southerners) to suppress the black population, especial...
What is painful is that black communities are over-policed and under-policed at the same time. A lot of police effort is directed at relatively minor ...
The "chattering classes" and their social media followers have been absolutely obsessed with race, gender, identity, et al. A lot of the talk, regardl...
Economics, I think. For a number of economically motivated reasons, women began to move into the work force in the 1960s (well before then, like durin...
Come again? Religion may well be a cover, but before and underneath the cover, the nastiness was there all along. People (all of us) are universally c...
The Church, Religion, Faith, Miracles, all that, claim to have been given a free pass, but it's certainly not accepted everywhere. There are plenty of...
Absolutely. And many others are also plotting to promote their various views. Good on some, a plague on others. Bronze and Iron Age myths. Christianit...
There was a Gallop poll 6 years ago that proves it. Just joking. Baker or some bitter crank are commenting on language use, and the observation is bas...
The break-away from religion (here I mean denomination, parish, formal worship) has been going on for the last 70 years. The 1960s were watershed year...
Thomas Jefferson was not a theist; at best he was a deist. And of course there is Judeo-Christian baggage attached to the idea of "creator". Western c...
The FACTS OF LIFE: Individuals may be considered "equal" as a political stance, but in practical terms, they are not. Each person lands somewhere on c...
Work sucks! That's why they have to pay people to do it. Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau Why is that? Most men are wage ...
I heard this in a radio discussion this morning. A neurologist or psychologist said that the primary purpose of the brain is running the body--everyth...
More like the Internet is attuned to the old nervous system, as was the telephone, telegraph, photograph, music, or--go back a few thousand years--wri...
Granted: there certainly are people who peak early (or not) and whose decline -- at middle age -- is clearly visible. And I'm not thinking of people w...
Some people do manage to become stupider as they age, but many people seem to get brighter. My guess is that the people who get brighter with age were...
Given a few hours, a psychologist can measure several axes of intelligence and come up with a pretty good summary of intellectual capacity. Similarly,...
Exactly. But I can't clarify what intelligence is, either. Some people are clearly not intelligent, whatever that is, and other people are. It seems t...
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