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The culture in Tennessee is different from that North of the Mason-Dixon line. "Them's fightin' words" the rhetorical prelude to a brawl. Perhaps Southerners just don't think themselves articulate enough to make their point persuasively with their hands in their pockets. This license plate...

Scheduled for today, the last January 6 insurrection hearings before the November elections. The hearings have been canceled due to Hurricane Ian. So much for the rigors of government work. The hearings were scheduled for Washington DC. Ian hasn't yet reached Florida's Gulf coast.

"Patriotism: the last refuge of a scoundrel." It appears racists and others rally around such symbols as the U.S. flag not to endorse what it officially stands for, but to attempt to falsely acquire, steal the legitimacy such symbols betoken, to elevate their disreputable cause. Mark mentions...

#FOXBusiness #HurricaneIan Hurricane Ian tracker: Storm barrels towards Florida | 9/27/22 Look out Florida. Follow this global warming trend and Florida has some serious long term problems. It's not practical to build a dike sheath to protect the peninsula. However there are some things that...

Oran, your clash may be in conflating the two unions. You're right of course about the economic diversity among the 50 States of the US union. Each State has an economy. But it's not chiefly an economic union, more geographic than economic. The national economy works it out. The cost of living...

Bloomberg covered this story. Dallas News, NPR, CBS, BBC, and others. It's not getting the level of attention it seems to deserve. I'm not sure how much of a factor it is, political hot potato in Texas? Too hot to handle? The path to correction is clear but uncertain. Wouldn't surprise me if...

The public shaming Hawthorne / The Scarlet Letter style is obvious. And this may invite petty vandalism across Tennessee. There's also a risk of mob violence when the Saturday night crowd in the biker bar parking lot clashes with the despised minority. Crime stats may register the...

Reactions to unexplained phenomena mirror the culture. In the bible they were metal shields. In the space age they're flying saucers. George Carlin said we created god "in our own image & likeness", a Genesis allusion. Does this explain why so many of our boogeymen are humanoid? Anxiety...

What a pastoral mental image! mark mywords, your lively descriptions, worth the price of admission. Keep em coming.

At this point I'm curious about King Charles. He has some big shoes to fill. If he tries to duplicate / replace her by mirroring results, he's likely to fail. But if Charles seizes it as an opportunity to leverage his meager station to successful utilitarian results, Mummy may not overshadow...

As an object's velocity approaches the speed of light (sol) it shrinks in length, and grows more massive (like getting heavier). * In the following scenario, when both ladder & garage are at equal rest, the ladder is too long to fit in the garage. Approaching sol an object's dimension along the...

Mark, that was more interesting, concise than anything I've seen on TV about it, though I haven't seen much TV lately. "Andrew was a pilot during the Falklands war" mark Didn't Prince Charles pilot a helicopter in or near combat during the Falklands war?

"And this prospect would worry Russia how? The reactor is in Ukraine, the land which would be contaminated would be in Ukraine and the vast majority of the people killed would be Ukrainian." mark It's a complex cost to benefit analysis. A variety of criteria may be considered: global public...

White House punts on 'digital dollar' but announces interagency research group The White House punted on whether it was ready to support the creation of a digital dollar, which would have allowed the United States to further adapt to the evolving crypto industry and help strengthen the dollar's...

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The climate change evidence is rapidly piling up. One of the more concerning aspects of what the climatologists warned, it seems many of their dire predictions were actually under-stated. It's worse than they said. Brutal heat wave shatters all-time records, threatens power outages across...

The impression I get from your link mark is that this specific Boris Johnson critic is more style than substance. The same argument without the clenched fists and repeated emphatic knee flexures would merely be political antagonism. I'm somewhat relieved that the U.S. isn't the only nation with...

Texas Judge Says HIV Drug Mandate Violates Religious Freedom Bloomberg It's not practical for a civilized country to function properly if individuals acquire a legal right to discriminate, even if premised on their own religious freedom. The Liberty right is a reciprocal right. Neither party's...

Looks unstable to me Rampage. Didn't this change result from a court ruling? What I've read leaves the impression rather than settling the matter, there are more law suits in progress, some with potential to establish yet more binding precedent.

National student test scores plummet, pandemic blamed. Thursday September 1, 2022 11:00 am EdSource staff National test results released on Thursday showed the pandemic’s devastating effects on American schoolchildren, with 9-year-olds’ math...