Brother Wood will, like as not, doubt the worth of psychology (and sociology as well, most likely) no matter how solid your defense. People who think ...
You are dating yourself. Sears is as good as dead. But now we have Amazon, which has much crap for sale than Sears did. Once we had only philosophy, w...
Did you, or are you reading Candide? If not, it's an easy read, and pretty short. The horrors he lists, some of them absurd, all happened to character...
Are you speaking of das capital or de capitol? Any strong, coherent, powerful protest against capital has been and will be suppressed by the state (so...
Cuba and Castro? Up here in Canadian border state land anyway, Cuba and Castro just don't show up on the radar. Just because they've had some demonstr...
Absolutely. It would be hard to over-state the intensity of efforts against labor and the left by the capitalist class (the ones who actually are succ...
Old style Communists would probably brand the right-wing storming the US capitol building (1/6/21) as "infantile adventurism" or some such. There is n...
Just rip the fur right off that fancy rat. BTW, there was a black squirrel in my back yard this afternoon. Or, it was a white squirrel in black face. ...
In June of 1968 I was getting oriented in the VISTA program in Boston -- Roxbury to be specific. We were a diverse white group, ranging from sophistic...
The joke follows the standard wind-up for jokes that tell a little story. Slur? Not much. The laughter in jokes is often driven by cruelty or unkindne...
WOODY ALLEN: "I took a speed reading course and read War And Peace in 20 minutes. It involves Russia." So, now we're plagiarizing our smart ass commen...
It isn't a bad joke. Actually, it's quite good. Mississippi, on the other hand IS a bad joke. Listed as worse state in the country by experts on bad s...
"Oh, you're oriental!" the driver says to the woman who just landed in the passenger seat. Brilliant idea -- substituting utterly unrelated dialogue t...
You have gotten carried away. Going off the deep end doesn't strengthen your case. Disagreeing with screwy ideas is not genocide. One of the reasons "...
"Icky". I've never found Allen or his films "icky". Great to not great, certainly. His depiction of neurosis can get tiresome after 3 or 4 hours, but ...
Once upon a time, I thought the 'guts on the table' approach was a good idea. Now, I'd just as soon they keep their guts off the table. It isn't as if...
You might as well decide for yourself, because nobody has the answer. IMHO, there are reasons to suppose that progress will not be unlimited. In order...
Rain in the city is a much different experience than rain out in the open countryside. Rain in the city does what snow does: it transforms the appeara...
Like I said, it's a little interesting known fact. Or an interesting known little fact--as opposed to a big fact. Big facts are hard to ignore. Gravit...
On the micro-level, change is a constant. The same on the macro level but might be a bit too slow to notice. People do not have an aversion to change,...
Interesting fact: ancient indigenous people used to wipe themselves out in order to get archeologists to blame a neighboring tribe, ages later. They n...
I recommend the Tumblr blog, subtitled "Drive-By Shootings" -- the shootings are snapshots of Los Angeles. https://64.media.tumblr.com/59527906de35cd5...
I have found that a lot of people who believe in various crock-of-shit theories think that religion is beneath contempt, when -- unbeknownst to them -...
Surely, only a philosopher would think that many (any?) arrived at belief in God through theoretical or logical proof. The much more probable routes a...
Interesting result, because Tylenol/paracetamol/acetaminophen (all the same compound) are sold OTC. It seems very unlikely that people would buy it by...
The International Standard for foul odor is Stench Startina, a combination of skatole, cadaverine, Putrescine, ghastly cheap perfume, the exhalations ...
All good points. Scientists in big pharma's labs are probably much more motivated by the potential for human benefit than the executives. My guess is ...
The "schizophrenia" concerns the kind of drugs that are sought in R&D laboratories and how these drugs are priced. First, the drug companies favor dru...
We form increasingly complex communities (eventually aggregating into "society" and then "civilization") in order to meet our basic requirements for l...
DNA is a code, true enough -- vastly more complex than a batch of IF/THEN codes. DNA and brains are both extraordinarily complex. Remember, the idea o...
We are a lot different than robots. And robots, remember, are a shabby imitation of ourselves, not the other way around. The thing about emotions is t...
Basic forces like time and gravity will do that to us. I'm definitely feeling it. Less magic and more reality as the years pass. Keep kicking and scre...
Interesting social experiment: Why don't you just tell us all what your new phone numbers are, then you can establish your baseline of popularity. Wos...
I came across a post by @"Wosret" about the Canadian elections. A check-out clerk had denounced him for being a liberal. Oh good, Wosret's back. Wonde...
John Marshall High School, Rochester MN. 4th Chief Justice SCOTUS 1801 to 1835--still the record for length. The 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison prese...
The Battle of Cass? Which war was that? Maybe they were naming your schools after grape varieties. Larger cities tend to name schools after famous men...
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