T_Clark

It's about scale. You need to understand chemistry to understand biology at it's most basic level. Biological systems have to behave consistent with t...

It's about scale. Particle physics deals with the world at the smallest possible scale. To understand biology you need to understand chemistry and phy...

I'm guessing Newton and Brookline do. I was just checking and it says that town meeting members in those cases are elected, not chosen by lottery, so ...

No one in Massachusetts calls themselves a Masshole. Similarly, no one here ever eats baked beans. Also - you can't park your car in Harvard Yard, the...

7:40 EDT I'm watching Trump driving to the jail in Atlanta. I see @"Hanover" out front the jail. I know it's him because he's there with Fred. I'm sur...

I have affection for the town meeting in my town, but it can definitely be clunky.

Massachusetts and some of the other New England states have something similar. Towns are governed by a Board of Selectmen and a Town Meeting. The sele...

Thanks for the education. I'll take a look at "What is Real."

I appreciate it. I should not have been so combative.

That is such baloney: That also is baloney. I'm going to leave it there as long as you do.

This is not reasonable unless the original poster specifically asked you to do it. The hard problem was an important aspect of the original post. My r...

The best bars are all at least slightly seedy.

I don't think this accurately represents the understanding of those who believe that phenomenal consciousness can be studied effectively using scienti...

As far as we know, none of the various interpretations of quantum mechanics can be verified even in principle. They are all equivalent. There is no di...

That.

I understand you like the voting, and that's fine, but I really don't.

I don't like it being a competition. As I noted, I'm interested in people's thoughts, not their votes.

Some thoughts: Consciousness causes wave collapse - It is not currently possible to empirically differentiate between interpretations of quantum mecha...

For me, the solution is to have no voting, just comments and discussion. Maybe no one would participate if we did that. I'm not afraid of criticism of...

@"Noble Dust", @"javi2541997", @"Benkei", @"Caldwell", @"Amity", @"Hanover", @"god must be atheist", @"Vera Mont", @"Jack Cummins", @"Baden", Again, t...

My brother lived in China for a couple of years back in the early 2000s. When we picked him up at the airport, he made us stop at the first Wendy's we...

I think there is some truth in what you've written, although it wasn't going through my mind as I wrote or as I reread it later. Yes, it definitely is...

Thanks for the thoughtful response. Anti-poem? Hmm... I thought it was a very poemy poem. I never would have thought of it as post-modern. My favorite...

I was not thinking about this while I was writing, but in a cockeyed kind of way it has some truth in it. I discuss this more in a summary post at the...

I will put my own thoughts about the poem in a post at the bottom.

It's certainly not something I had in mind while writing. As I wrote in a previous response to this post, I enjoyed Chat GPT's "thoughts" about the po...

There is no poetic meaning to the title. If a title doesn't jump out at me, I often just number my poems. These certainly weren't in my mind when I wa...

Sorry, no song. But there was a spark. I'll discuss that more in a comment at the bottom. Thanks.

Thank you. This means a lot to me.

But boring and odious are his best qualities.

My father and step-mother lived in Melbourne for three years. They loved it there and said the food and the people were great.

As I've written before, I love New York City. Alas, I very rarely get there. If I do, I'll stay with you for a week or two.

You talk about the things you're eating all the time. I enjoy those posts. In Europe I've been to the more northern countries - France, Germany, Belgi...

Tell us about the food... and of course anything else you'd like to tell us.

I didn't say "getting laid" is a euphemism for making love, I said to "lay someone down is." They wouldn't generally be used in the same way.

I hope nothing I've written is construed as criticism of you. I really appreciate how you've run the process.

It doesn't seem right for me to do it, but that's personal. I'm not proposing that others shouldn't. It's not a big deal. When I'm up for the Pulitzer...

Why not a straightforward source - to lay someone down is a colloquial, perhaps a bit poetic, term for making love.

It's funny. I thought it would be obvious to people it was mine.

I once took 5,000 fishes and gave them to two guys.

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This is a good post. You make your case clearly and your argument is a good one. Purely coincidently, I agree with you.

This made me think of a line in a song from "The Wizard of Oz." "She's not only meerly dead, she's really most sincerely dead."

See edit. Sorry, I didn't think it was needed. He did win for literature, which never made sense to me.

I don't listen to folk much these days, especially the old stuff, but sometimes a song by Peter, Paul, and Mary comes on and I am struck by how good t...

It would make sense to compare Ochs with early Dylan. Dylan was the quintessential example of that type of musician, but he hasn't been that for a lon...

Wouldn't have been right.

When do you plan to reopen the submissions so we can respond to comments?

I guess I should have voted for myself.

Anytime you need somebody to be confused, I'll be happy to help.