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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...
October 19, 2021 at 02:04
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...
October 18, 2021 at 06:25
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...
October 18, 2021 at 01:02
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...
October 17, 2021 at 23:53
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...
October 17, 2021 at 23:28
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...
October 17, 2021 at 00:56
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...
October 16, 2021 at 23:10
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...
October 16, 2021 at 20:54
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October 15, 2021 at 20:14
It's actually worse than taxpayers paying for military might, industry, and government. "Labor produces all wealth." Period. Working people -- whereve...
October 15, 2021 at 20:09
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...
October 15, 2021 at 05:14
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...
October 15, 2021 at 05:04
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...
October 15, 2021 at 02:47
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...
October 15, 2021 at 00:37
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...
October 14, 2021 at 20:56
@"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...
October 14, 2021 at 20:27
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...
October 14, 2021 at 09:04
A lot of people are obsessed with race, gender, unequal distributions (of anything) and the like. Like any obsession, it's unhealthy.
October 14, 2021 at 05:51
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 ...
October 13, 2021 at 23:35
Kangaroos probably have an unusually strong death wish, caused by their colonization by white people and their infernal combustion engines. Colonialis...
October 13, 2021 at 23:20
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 ...
October 12, 2021 at 21:15
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...
October 12, 2021 at 18:24
Famines are usually caused by politics. Failed or non-existent governments, incompetent or corrupt politicians, liars, thieves, knaves, and scoundrels...
October 12, 2021 at 05:02
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...
October 11, 2021 at 23:04
Not to me.
October 11, 2021 at 02:06
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 ...
October 11, 2021 at 02:02
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...
October 11, 2021 at 01:43
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...
October 11, 2021 at 01:32
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...
October 11, 2021 at 01:25
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...
October 11, 2021 at 01:19
Slavery may be an ultimate--but distant--cause of blacks circumstances. The efforts of (mostly southerners) to suppress the black population, especial...
October 11, 2021 at 01:13
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 ...
October 11, 2021 at 00:55
The "chattering classes" and their social media followers have been absolutely obsessed with race, gender, identity, et al. A lot of the talk, regardl...
October 10, 2021 at 20:09
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...
October 10, 2021 at 05:40
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...
October 10, 2021 at 05:28
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...
October 10, 2021 at 03:49
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...
October 09, 2021 at 23:58
No matter what people believe, or do not believe, people tend to conform, and promote conformity to whatever is the dominant scheme of belief.
October 09, 2021 at 22:54
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...
October 09, 2021 at 21:07
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...
October 09, 2021 at 20:51
I'm not sure whether you said what you meant to say. Clarify, please.
October 08, 2021 at 23:43
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...
October 08, 2021 at 23:41
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...
October 08, 2021 at 17:50
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 ...
October 06, 2021 at 22:36
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...
October 06, 2021 at 22:28
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...
October 06, 2021 at 01:40
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...
October 05, 2021 at 23:10
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...
October 05, 2021 at 21:44
Given a few hours, a psychologist can measure several axes of intelligence and come up with a pretty good summary of intellectual capacity. Similarly,...
October 05, 2021 at 21:38
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...
October 05, 2021 at 21:33