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Sadly, that's what we would anticipate. My hope was that you would surprise us. There are two main personality types among the sane, and many variations. Red Sun's personality is type 1. He's speeding down a street. A car pulls slowly out from an intersecting street. The driver can not see...

Alternatively, you could pay attention to well meaning criticism and respond rationally.

Precisely why moving away from defined benefit retirement plans, which the U.S. has been doing, is going on the wrong direction. The U.S. has been moving toward self-funded, defined contribution retirement plans which have the advantage, like social security, of being highly portable, but...

" 'Real'... GDP" means the GDP figure quoted has already been adjusted to take inflation into account. Generally speaking, GDP is reported as real GDP. But of course when a politician is reporting it, beware. One should always be clear about whether the are reporting "real GDP" or nominal...

Of course, any reasonable person would ignore such a ridiculous statement. At the time Atlas made that idiotic statement , children were not often catching the virus because they were not in school. Schools were closed! The counter argument that kids don't get very sick from Covid so why not...

It would be best to get some accurate information before wasting our time with posts such as yours above.

I found it pretty interesting. E. O. Wilson is in his eighties and still writing. He is the world authority on eusocial species which includes ants, bees and we humans. His specialty is ants. Over his lifetime, Wilson has influenced a significant number of today's best known intellectuals in...

Silly you, what about "alternative facts?"

This is an example of one of the mechanisms nature uses to "clean up" the gene pool for our species. We ought not to interfere with this mechanism.

Ha, ha ha. It just occurred to me how absurd this statement above of Piers Morgan is. "AOC gets a pass!!!!..." AOC is one of the most consistently attacked U.S. politicians. This constant snipping at the extremely rare individual that break's from the tribe by making themselves a vocal critic...

What caused me to make my surly and sarcastic remark was your remark: "I'm trying to track down a story I saw the other day about the authorities trying to hide the drop in K-12 enrollment in NYC ... I may have misunderstood that your interest was more in the "trying to hide" than in why the...

And let's not forget what it will do to the economy, and our children's futures. Can you say "ZOOM."

There is a big difference between inflation, even double digit, and hyperinflation. Inflation yes, a small amount appears to be both practical and politically unavoidable in modern economies that run on fractional reserve banking, but hyperinflation is intolerable. The latter is a symptom of a...

Keep looking, there is bound to be a good conspiracy in their somewhere. Damn those pesky socialists.

Isn't 2023 still in the future? The last time I looked it was. Have you considered it may be a little too soon to declare yourself a genius. "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra You've apparently forgot the first rule of stock market prediction...

can you elaborate on that, please.

OK.

That detachment from chronology and cyclical quality you mention may be characteristic of instinctive behavior we have great difficulty doing anything about. We think education may be our only weapon against instinct. I hope that's not true, because much of time, education proves inadequate.

It's jarring to read Johnny Rocks post on an occasion set aside to honor our veterans. Johnny's timing seems inappropriate and crass. Seen as an indictment of ourselves, however, perhaps JohnnyRocks post, painful as it is, needs to be read more on this day than any other.

If you have studied theology, political science, or philosophy, then you are almost certain to have been introduced to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's writings. Those who haven't run across Bonhoeffer before may find this YouTube video interesting. I am uncertain how accurately this video conveys...