In undergrad philosophy, most exams are simply headshots of famous philosophers that the students have to identify. In post-graduate studies, they use the picture of Nietzsche when he’s shaved.

In the US, driving a car is mandatory. Your safety is being sacrificed for the economy and auto/fuel industries, not because low skilled drivers exist.

It takes a real asshole to make driving harder for the individual in a system where the only alternative to driving is fuck yourself. If you can’t drive, you don’t deserve to eat!

It’s a proud American tradition to re-distribute the shit rather than doing something about the assholes above you.

You’re going to have problems with authenticity when your family photo makes you look like a phony.

Why not

Because, like most things Hunter has ever done, it’s wrong. I don’t want a version of MAGA for the left. The left should concede the award for biggest piece of shit; don’t even compete for it.

It bears repeating that religious zealots and anti-theists are two sides of the same coin. To the point where anti-theists who were religious zealots is common, like you describe. Both offer certainty, superiority, and are obsessed with out-groups and enemies. You may want to reflect if, and perhaps why those things appeal to you.

It’s a myth that Congress gets this many days off. They work very hard begging for money and making promises.

Nobody was ever going to learn about MLK or Civil Rights in a movie by Spielberg or anyone else.

If you want to move past “content of their character” and “I have a dream”, your going to have to pick up a book.

I recommend ‘Prophet of discontent’ by Douglas and Loggins

I used to do a lot of driving for work and it’s important to manage stress in traffic. Whenever someone would do something that aggravated me, I’d pretend that they did it for some silly reason and it helped me stay calm.

Someone cut you off? They must have have to shit so bad. Someone driving crazy fast? They’re trying to get to their wife before their girlfriend does.

It’s a tragedy that pop country music has become Republican radio.

Now it’s all jean-shorts, parting, and trucks. Bring back the alcoholism, divorce, and murder please.

You can afford 64GB of DDR5.

There is no reason to cheep out on commodity pantry items. Quality flour, potatoes, rice, beans, frozen veggies, and canned goods are never going to break the budget and make a huge difference in meals.

You can afford the good flour.

You don’t believe that wealthier or stronger people can be abused?

Only the Sith deal in absolutes, but yes, I believe that the party with more power is likely to be the one who abuses. You may be aware that power is not just an indicator of abuse, but often the modality of abuse.

The idea that Depp chooses partners who are younger than his shoes, and still gets overpowered and outmatched, calls into question not only his masculinity, but his ability to function in the world.

Depp is bigger, stronger, has more money, wealth, influence, and power. To imagine Heard as the abuser, you have to impart her with supernatural ability, or concede that Johnny is the world’s biggest pussy.

Johnny Depp is the turd in his own bed.

Low birth rates are a crisis for capitalism, not humanity. And if you count brown countries, it’s not even happening.

Pension schemes are not a biological imperative.

A Demon Haunted World by Sagan should be taught in school.

Go Tell it On the Mountain by Baldwin is such a beautiful work of fiction that you could totally miss the profundity of it’s themes.

The problems with this book are not just “a product of it’s time”. There were authors at the time who could write women characters, Heinlen just wasn’t one of them.

This was my favorite book when I was in my mid 20s. I tried to read it a couple of years ago and just couldn’t.

Lady murdered her own children because she was fucking nuts and no other reason. Nobody disputes this. If she doesn’t qualify for the ‘insanity’ defense, who does?

Pregnancy is a scary thing. Everyone knows it can kill it’s parent, but not everyone appreciates that it regularly changes the mom’s body permanently. That is to say it damages mom’s body permanently. Turns out it can wreck the brain just as badly as the pelvic floor.

It’s so shocking and disturbing to think about a mother murdering her own kids. So I feel like I have to point out that family annihilation is the most common form of mass murder in the US and it happens about every 5 days. Clancy’s actions do not fit the pattern of that crime because the children were wanted, the marriage was stable, there was no abuse, and it’s unusual for a woman to do this.