A lot of backlashing and thrashing goes on here. Don't pay it much heed. I can understand an athlete's decision to cancel an appearance for good reaso...
Are child support payments tyrannical if one has abdicated support for the children one has sired or borne? It would seem closer to tyranny if I was f...
According to a United Methodist site on hymnody, Walter Chalmers Smith (1824-1908) attempted to answer the question, "How do you express the inexpress...
Any coupling between unrelated partners can produce a deformed baby. Does that make all sex unethical? What evidence do you have that we have "natural...
Perhaps God exists, perhaps not. What I am quite certain of is that IF God exists, the Ancient of Days is quite beyond our capacity to know or underst...
@"SSU" The American Class System rests on a very solid foundation of exploitation. We are not at all unique in this respect. Successive groups have be...
No, you are a well-traveled urban sophisticate, and if you are not urban then you are urbane. In America there are these dreaded 'diversity workshop l...
Having spent 40+ years in education and social services, I am well aware of unique and individual differences that confound stereotypes. But at the sa...
I noted the decision was often quite deliberate, either way. But with 8 billion sex drives in operation, conception without intention is likely to be ...
I start with the assumption that stereotyping is a natural talent that is evenly distributed across the world's population. It is a very useful skill....
The average number of children is declining. However, in 1960 the world population was a little over 3 billion. Now it is about 8 billion. Somebody di...
Most people were born and didn't die before their particular "worst of it". Bad stuff has been the lot of many billions over many millennia. Our speci...
Sometimes people very deliberately set out to have children, and sometimes they very deliberately set out to NOT have children. Most of the time child...
Bulls are not like Elsie the cow. Good idea to avoid them. But then, Elsie the cow had a bull for a father, and she might enjoy kicking, trampling, an...
Church, state, and corporation leaves out the entire non-profit sector of society which at least in the US, and in some states, is a major component o...
Provided that "what they like" is a good thing and provided that it can be encouraged or "given", I'd weigh in more heavily on 'yes' than 'no'. But no...
The State and Business have been joined at the hip for a long time. I'm not sure they can be prized apart. They have been defining the terms of life f...
"Hogwash" has served well, maybe as well as bullshit since the mid 15th century: from hog + wash; the original sense was ‘kitchen swill for pigs’. So ...
Previously not-noticed factoid: "Bullshit" (with the contemporary meaning) was added to the language around 1910. So... How did people get along witho...
"Most people would want this" might be appropriate guidance in the absence of knowledge about what the (actual) individual would want. We don't always...
In order for one to take sufficiently complex technology as magic, one would have to believe in magic. Were you or I to find a device left behind by a...
Long ago I read an anthropologist's account of a small society that encouraged its children to be as sexual as they wished to be from an early age. Wh...
That is a critical consideration. Underaged children are vulnerable to exploitation by adults because they a) aren't strong enough to defend themselve...
The difference between incest and homosexuality is this: incest usually occurs between close family members--usually between persons of opposite sex--...
Let's not forget "bore" - something that boars, sows, barrows, and gilts never do. Actual swine are pretty interesting. Boors, on the other hand, are ...
When you get into your 70s and 80s, university foundations which had previously ignored you become quite chatty -- given the chances of actually havin...
"Boar" has two meanings -- a wild pig (which are not native to North America) and a domestic male pig with balls. Female pigs who have not been pregna...
It's not as if a paleontologist stumbles across one fossilized bone and immediately proceeds to pontificate on what the fossil means for evolution. On...
You failed to mention that it fell asleep one day on the couch in the Oval Room of the White House while Donald Trump was president. That's all that h...
Two of my sisters had polio in the early 1950s, one a severe case with paralysis requiring extensive surgery and rehab, the other a mild case without ...
Computers and telephones have caused me to burn enough food on the stove to feed the Russian Army. I don't know... do Russian soldiers like scorched p...
I could probably produce something; it might even meet your expectations for snark, sex, and wisdom. What would be absent or very poor is what makes a...
The monkeys are back. Most of Minnesota is under a serious air pollution warning from the smoke. Haze, heat, humidity. In 2018, I think it was, the sm...
I was judging him harshly? It is a good thing to have more Ideas than you know what to do with. Had his mind been a quiet shallow pool, the D of I and...
I know nothing about American Indian languages. Side note to side note: Not surprising at all. The 13,000 years (+ or - a millennium) the aboriginal p...
Thomas Jefferson is a fraught topic from any angle. Take his reputation as a splendid architect. I read a thorough history of Jefferson's work on Mont...
Henry Ford thought that history was bunk. You are right. History is designed to convict those who did not live up to the stated ideals as directed by ...
Random and its diminutive, 'randy'. "What year did Plymouth Volare come out? 1976 With so much going wrong, the new compacts couldn't arrive soon enou...
I used to worry about otherwise advantaged students not knowing when major events happened, like the Civil War, or not knowing big events happened at ...
Bear in mind that Indians had been organizing efforts to rid themselves of the British Raj since before WWI. It was an item on their agenda about whic...
Self-disgust had nothing to do with it. Empires shed their empires because they could not hold on to them any longer. Then too, the natives were getti...
If psychology (or sociology) is not a science, then what is it? It seems to be a hybrid of formal science (such as when psychologists measure response...
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