[1] First, we saw a widely panned, bizarre Republican reply to the State of The Union address from the junior senator from Alabama delivered in a breathy, Marilyn Monroe kind of voice following a widely-praised, fiery, Biden speech...
Thanks to all here who have taught me or caused me to think. This is a special community for me. There is nothing else like it in my life. Only here is it possible to have protracted discussions, sometimes over years, with those holding both similar and other religious and political opinions...
The irony.
Speaking of swamp creatures, a telling revelation of the J6 committee was the email exchange between former Counselor to the President Hope Hicks and former chief of staff to Ivanka Trump on January 6th from within the White House during the rioting.
The women were dismayed that...
The January 6th Select Committee on a 9-0 vote will refer Donald Trump to the DOJ for prosecution on at least four charges:
[1] Assisting or aiding in an insurrection
[2] Obstruction of an official proceeding
[3] Conspiracy to make false statements (fake electors)
[4] Conspiracy to defraud the...
From Kyrsten Sinema leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent | CNN Politics
Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is leaving the Democratic Party and registering as a political independent, she told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an exclusive TV interview.
“I’ve registered as an Arizona...
[Found on the Internet, assorted sites]
The Morse code - Here come dots
Decimal point - A dot in place
Mother-in-law - Woman Hitler
Snooze alarms - Alas, no more Zs.
Eleven plus two - Twelve plus one
Election results - Lies! Let’s recount
The eyes - They see
Year Two Thousand - A year to shut...
Who considers writing a post with possible frubals in mind inappropriate?
The argument for it is that it keeps one thinking about what others do and don't want to read, which can improve posting. It's had that effect on me. I just changed the word "clown" to "man" in an RF post because of that...
This term originally comes from the medical field and refers to a reaction caused by some combination of emotional (and often physical) exhaustion from overwork, exposure to excessive and prolonged suffering in others, and a sense of powerlessness. It manifests as a relative shutdown of empathy...
This is the messaging and spine many have been waiting for from the Democrats. Thoughts? :
SOURCE
"The phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” started off as a dig at President Biden that spread quickly online and became a political slogan adopted by the president’s critics on the right, including former...
About six months ago, Texas passed a restrictive abortion bill that authorized citizens to function as bounty hunters should they learn about anybody performing or facilitating an abortion, with a $10,000 reward and court costs possible. Lawsuits followed looking for federal support in...
Perhaps it would interesting if some of us shared what our avatars and screen names mean if not obvious, and why we selected them to represent us.
My screen name is a song title about atheism from the mid-20th century Gershwin musical Porgy And Bess: "It ain't necessarily so. The things that...
I was watching a show discussing the Parker Solar probe that will orbit the sun surprisingly close, about 5.3 million miles away (4 million at its perihelion) to monitor it, and how difficult it is to get it there. I hadn't thought about getting to the sun before, except maybe when thinking...
Headline above from Physics-Astronomy.org
Also from the link, "Last April, NPR shared an article on their Facebook page which asked "Why doesn't America read anymore?"
No, not the Jackson nomination hearings, but regarding the fate of Clarence Thomas (CT) on the Court.
The January 6th committee just released a series of text messages between Supreme Court Justic Clarence Thomas' wife Ginni Thomas and former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows written between...
I thought that this was interesting. From The Mystery Of Why Human Feet Keep Washing Ashore In The US And Canada Has Been Solved
"Since August 20, 2007, an alarming number of human feet have washed up on the coasts of the Salish Sea in the US and Canada. OK, any number of human feet washing up...
We talk about truth, fact, and knowledge. I would suggest that these all refer to what we also call correct ideas. My question is, what are the qualities of a correct idea that distinguish it from an incorrect idea and allow us to call one correct and the other incorrect?
This is a trivial...
These are two terms I encountered in my reading today that were new to me, and I thought worthy of consideration.
[1] The first, cognitive empathy, comes from 'Dark Empaths': How Dangerous Are Psychopaths And Narcissists With Empathy?
The idea of empathetic psychopaths intrigued me, as I...
This is a hysterical website in which a guy named Steve eats and reports on things that you and I probably wouldn't eat. It's a series of blurbs on various products he's tried that doesn't really get funny until "Vol 5," when he reviews his nursing wife's breast milk:
Then fermented soy...
My question is rhetorical, as the answer is contained in the following article, but I thought that this might be an interesting topic to discuss, and one that struck a resonant chord in me when I read it.
Though not observant, I was told by my atheist parents that we were Jews. And somewhere -...