Those who advocate central control are snake oil salesmen. "Does this oil cure warts? Of course it does!! Dyspepsia? Absolutely!! Cancer? Why, we have just the thing for you!" If your primary

The central culture war for our society is the war of centralization against decentralization. Everything flows down from this, and every political disagreement is a specific case of this general concept.

The human immune system is not designed to have foreign proteins in the bloodstream, because before we developed the ability to inject things into the body with needles, there was no way for foreign proteins

I didn't know that but look forward to watching it!

That wasn't my takeaway. I thought it was very well done. Maybe what we take away from the series depends on the perspective we go into it with. What I saw this series attacking was not the Soviet Union

I too believe that we would be in a much better place today had we stayed with the Articles rather than the new constitution. We would have engaged in much less war precisely because the Articles made

I think it comes down to the reality that a good portion of humans trust authority. A few do not. Those who trust authority, who need authority, who crave authority to make them feel safe and secure, will

Yup. That's that whole "do I want to watch the kids' games or take pictures of them" conundrum....

Amen brother.

Thanks KafkA! Your articles usually stimulate my thought process, so team effort. Voluntary community building at its best!

Beautiful pictures. Nothing compares to life in real life. All attempts to copy it, preserve it, memorialize it, can capture at best only a tiny little slice, a subtle hint of that moment. A life spent

This answer obviously won't be part of the competition, because as you and I know, there is no simple answer to that complicated tax question. You and that individual will never be able to come to any

Makes me sad. Those are people to whom the United States should be a beacon, a leader, a light showing the rest of the world how to have an open, peaceful country. We should see the people in those videos

Just like porn. Used to be you had to shuffle off to the dingy sad little porn shack and rub elbows with other degenerates. Now? Delivered fresh to your computer, anything you want! No more getting in

Using very broad strokes, there are 2 kinds of horse races: handicap stakes In handicap, the horses all carry different weights. Why? Because some horses are faster than others. And the goal of the handicapper

Hate it when I have an idea and then it vanishes! I find that my ideas come to me when I am "mindlessly" doing things like showering, doing yard or house work, or after waking during the night

I'm willing to bet that Roman society was obsessed with "terrorism" as their empire started to collapse too...

I always find it interesting that almost everyone understands the danger of monopoly. If you talk to a "Progressive", they understand thoroughly that, if allowed, monopoly results in the lowest

When we are all awake, aware that a particular narrative is being pushed, then like water we can flow around whatever is put in our way and make it irrelevant. We can't take TV remotes out of people's

Our world is full of attempts to create a faux everything. Attempts to get the same thing with less work or less time. Flip side to our tool making ability is that we are always looking for shortcuts.