Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
4th November 2023, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 2,165
The only name I recognize is Glen Miller….
...
The only name I recognize is Glen Miller….
I’d say Billy Strings. Strings, along with a few other cutting-edge bluegrass artists, are rapidly bringing that form back to prominence.
I see that...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
15th September 2023, 06:13 AM
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Replies: 100
Views: 3,536
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
26th August 2023, 06:45 AM
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Replies: 103
Views: 2,574
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
5th August 2023, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,803
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Forum: USA Politics
25th July 2023, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 115
Views: 3,503
Years ago, when I had just started my...
Years ago, when I had just started my campus-police career, the local “Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade” would show up on campus with their red berets and a stack of flyers and a small bullhorn....
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
25th July 2023, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,803
Eucharistic Miracles
I’m having a back-and-forth on Quora with a gentleman who identifies as an ex-priest and a firm Catholic believer. I’ve been pointing out problems with various “miracles” he brings up, but I’m not...
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Forum: USA Politics
8th July 2023, 07:12 AM
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Replies: 2,394
Views: 69,353
I did extensive reading on paraphilia and...
I did extensive reading on paraphilia and “forensic sexology” some years back. One author noted that in societies that allowed open sexual experimentation with their children… That nothing was...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
9th June 2023, 04:23 AM
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Replies: 350
Views: 19,132
Mick West has a decent take on this:
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Mick West has a decent take on this:
https://youtu.be/gKtusX7XY6g
Says the guy is just repeating the same tired old tropes that have been repeated for decades.
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
19th May 2023, 06:17 AM
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Replies: 62
Views: 2,333
In Gene Wolfe’s “Shadow of the Torturer”,...
In Gene Wolfe’s “Shadow of the Torturer”, Severian has an executioner’s sword… Upon which Wolfe lavishes some detail.
Like the one pictured, it has no point, but it has two edges… One for men,...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
24th April 2023, 06:14 AM
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,430
As noted, the “patrol rifle” has effectively...
As noted, the “patrol rifle” has effectively replaced the old standard “riot gun” for oh, 20 years now.
This all began with the North Hollywood Bank Robbery incident where police were confronted...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
6th March 2023, 05:16 AM
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Replies: 102
Views: 9,091
I was in the army from ‘64 to ‘67… And we had...
I was in the army from ‘64 to ‘67… And we had pretty much a genuine “historic” Jeep.
It was a “medic” Jeep, with the extended back end to carry stretchers. Ours had been manufactured in 1946,...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
3rd March 2023, 08:01 AM
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Replies: 56
Views: 2,028
“Sexualization” of children.
Much of the right wing rhetoric around the various anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-drag, and school-book issues refers to the “sexualization” of children.
This is an incorrect use of the term. To...
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Forum: USA Politics
3rd March 2023, 05:25 AM
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Replies: 2,394
Views: 69,353
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Forum: USA Politics
25th February 2023, 07:27 AM
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Replies: 2,394
Views: 69,353
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
17th February 2023, 08:23 AM
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Replies: 150
Views: 3,960
In my dabblings in art, and in my somewhat...
In my dabblings in art, and in my somewhat limited study, it has always seemed to me that art is partly about communication. That the artist is communicating something to the viewer.
This may be...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
13th February 2023, 07:45 AM
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Replies: 113
Views: 4,354
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
8th February 2023, 05:12 AM
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Replies: 299
Views: 11,444
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
6th February 2023, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,441
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
29th January 2023, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 2,479
Views: 198,349
We have seen this historically. Police...
We have seen this historically. Police departments, often with the tacit approval of city fathers, form “special units” that are tasked with cleaning up a specific perceived problem like gang...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
27th January 2023, 05:26 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 2,290
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
7th January 2023, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 41
Views: 3,220
Back shortly after the collapse of the Soviet...
Back shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union and that brief period of openness, Randi did a tour of Russia exploring the incidence of “woo”… And found plenty.
This was done as a PBS...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
1st January 2023, 08:34 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,138
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
31st December 2022, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,138
911 Call Analysis.
Article in Pro Publica this morning:
https://www.propublica.org/article/911-call-analysis-fbi-police-courts
A fellow named Tracy Harpster, a deputy police chief from Dayton, Ohio, has developed...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
18th December 2022, 07:19 AM
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Replies: 261
Views: 7,937
Is it though? First, it’s enormously...
Is it though? First, it’s enormously expensive. We have to consider the monies spent on police, prosecutors, courts, jails, prisons, the probation and parole system, etc, etc.
And to a...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
17th December 2022, 07:55 AM
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Replies: 544
Views: 21,614
I recall reading long ago that one of the...
I recall reading long ago that one of the motivations for the homosexual drag scene was along the lines of being “in your face” to heterosexual haters…
“You think I want to be a woman? I’ll show...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
17th December 2022, 07:46 AM
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Replies: 71
Views: 2,750
When this question is brought up, I normally...
When this question is brought up, I normally point out that humans have been very, very violent for a very long time… Long before any notion of TV, movies, and video games.
We could say that all...
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Forum: USA Politics
17th December 2022, 07:38 AM
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Replies: 222
Views: 8,209
We recognize pedophilia as a condition, a...
We recognize pedophilia as a condition, a paraphilia like the 40-odd others known to researchers. We do not know the causation, so far as I know, and I’ve read a lot about paraphilia.
Some are...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
17th December 2022, 07:22 AM
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Replies: 261
Views: 7,937
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
17th December 2022, 07:14 AM
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Replies: 572
Views: 17,688
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
12th December 2022, 07:08 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 991
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Forum: USA Politics
5th November 2022, 06:25 AM
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Replies: 1,214
Views: 63,512
NPR’s polling indicates that voters “trust”...
NPR’s polling indicates that voters “trust” Republicans more with the economy.
This makes my head spin, since successive Republican Administrations have put the economy in the tubes, while...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
17th October 2022, 06:50 AM
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Replies: 199
Views: 10,409
Back when the History channel was doing actual...
Back when the History channel was doing actual history…. One of the commentators referred to the thing as “the stupidest weapon ever devised”.
When I was a medic in Germany back in the mid-60s,...
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Forum: General Skepticism and The Paranormal
8th October 2022, 06:14 AM
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Replies: 49
Views: 8,704
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
28th September 2022, 04:18 AM
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Replies: 125
Views: 4,958
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Forum: USA Politics
17th September 2022, 05:54 AM
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Replies: 101
Views: 2,898
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
3rd September 2022, 06:07 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,091
Way back when I got stents, they prescribed...
Way back when I got stents, they prescribed Plavix+Asprin for me.
A couple of weeks after I got home, I nearly fainted in a fast-food restaurant. I was experiencing severe intestinal bleeding...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
26th August 2022, 04:28 AM
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Replies: 103
Views: 3,378
I posted this on a Reddit forum yesterday as...
I posted this on a Reddit forum yesterday as well…
Years ago, I read a book titled “The English Vice” which explored the widespread incidence of spanking-fetish in that country tied to the...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
31st July 2022, 06:06 AM
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Replies: 3,175
Views: 194,571
Here in Missouri, where we have a raft of...
Here in Missouri, where we have a raft of Republicans vying for the seat vacated by Blunt…. They are all trying to out-conservative each other and every one of them is vowing to “keep Critical Race...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
31st July 2022, 06:00 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 2,920
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
12th July 2022, 04:26 AM
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Replies: 621
Views: 33,295
Some New Testament scholars, like Bart Ehrman,...
Some New Testament scholars, like Bart Ehrman, think that a historical Jesus was simply an Apocalyptic preaching the imminent arrival of the “Son of Man” who was to make everything right for the...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
7th July 2022, 05:07 AM
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Replies: 564
Views: 20,973
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Forum: USA Politics
25th June 2022, 06:14 AM
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Replies: 379
Views: 11,613
What’s interesting about the New York situation...
What’s interesting about the New York situation is that for many years, it was essentially impossible to even own a handgun in the state or in NYC.
Yet, gun crime was common, and annually the NYPD...
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
15th June 2022, 04:07 AM
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Replies: 324
Views: 13,320
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
5th June 2022, 06:13 AM
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Replies: 94
Views: 3,409
I was in the army in the mid-60s, when the...
I was in the army in the mid-60s, when the switchover from the M14 to the M16 was going on. We were in Germany, and we’d trained in basic with the M14 and that’s what we used.
A “battlefield”...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
27th May 2022, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 177
Views: 4,779
There you go.
As noted, “mass shootings” are...
There you go.
As noted, “mass shootings” are pretty much a blip on the homicide rate. The majority of killings going on currently are due to drug/gang violence in urban areas.
The reason for...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st May 2022, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 5,089
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
29th April 2022, 04:25 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 2,070
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
29th April 2022, 04:20 AM
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Replies: 107
Views: 4,487
I watched a 60 Minutes tour of a couple’s...
I watched a 60 Minutes tour of a couple’s modern-art collection. At one point, the interviewer pointed to a small piece of rope nailed to a wall.
“Is this a piece of art too?”
“Oh, yes.”
...
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
28th April 2022, 05:11 AM
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Replies: 70
Views: 2,472
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
28th April 2022, 04:59 AM
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Replies: 107
Views: 4,487
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