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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...
August 10, 2021 at 02:31
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...
August 09, 2021 at 20:24
According to a United Methodist site on hymnody, Walter Chalmers Smith (1824-1908) attempted to answer the question, "How do you express the inexpress...
August 09, 2021 at 20:19
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...
August 07, 2021 at 05:44
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...
August 07, 2021 at 05:37
@"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...
August 06, 2021 at 02:25
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...
August 06, 2021 at 01:47
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...
August 05, 2021 at 17:21
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 ...
August 05, 2021 at 16:58
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....
August 05, 2021 at 01:27
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...
August 03, 2021 at 16:37
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...
August 03, 2021 at 05:57
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...
August 03, 2021 at 05:42
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...
July 31, 2021 at 05:21
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...
July 30, 2021 at 22:10
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July 30, 2021 at 21:57
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...
July 30, 2021 at 17:36
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...
July 30, 2021 at 05:31
Very interesting -- that humming birds eat a lot of mosquitos. News to me.
July 30, 2021 at 05:26
"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 ...
July 30, 2021 at 05:19
Previously not-noticed factoid: "Bullshit" (with the contemporary meaning) was added to the language around 1910. So... How did people get along witho...
July 29, 2021 at 23:33
"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...
July 28, 2021 at 07:47
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...
July 28, 2021 at 05:27
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...
July 28, 2021 at 02:51
That is a critical consideration. Underaged children are vulnerable to exploitation by adults because they a) aren't strong enough to defend themselve...
July 28, 2021 at 02:34
The difference between incest and homosexuality is this: incest usually occurs between close family members--usually between persons of opposite sex--...
July 27, 2021 at 05:08
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July 25, 2021 at 01:53
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July 25, 2021 at 01:52
A boar with balls will barrel down the road faster than you can wheel a borrowed barrow.
July 25, 2021 at 00:20
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 ...
July 25, 2021 at 00:16
When you get into your 70s and 80s, university foundations which had previously ignored you become quite chatty -- given the chances of actually havin...
July 24, 2021 at 20:47
"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...
July 24, 2021 at 20:35
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...
July 24, 2021 at 06:15
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...
July 24, 2021 at 00:32
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 ...
July 24, 2021 at 00:22
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...
July 23, 2021 at 23:43
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...
July 23, 2021 at 02:59
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...
July 21, 2021 at 04:16
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...
July 20, 2021 at 21:46
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...
July 20, 2021 at 19:37
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...
July 20, 2021 at 19:15
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 ...
July 20, 2021 at 06:07
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...
July 20, 2021 at 03:01
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 ...
July 19, 2021 at 22:03
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...
July 19, 2021 at 21:12
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...
July 18, 2021 at 23:36
And psychologists have certainly done a fine job on that project!
July 18, 2021 at 19:05
Maybe an antidepressant would help?
July 18, 2021 at 19:03
Good point. Thanks.
July 18, 2021 at 19:00
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...
July 18, 2021 at 18:56