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A hero in his own mind, so incandescently brilliant Trump himself is one of only very few to comprehend his intellectual majesty.

And now he's chair man of the bored ? In the UK: "chemist" "shop" = in the US: pharmacy As Sir Winston Churchill observed, the US & the UK are separated by a common language.

It can take an army of talented Mennonite craftsmen a full day to build a barn, but a few seconds for a bumbling drunkard to strike the match that burns it down. Thus destruction is vastly simpler, easier than construction. "You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny...

Let's keep our clothes on, and sunbathe in a doggy toilet ! Would you want to be the one homeowner on the block with a porch in occlusive proximity to the neighborhood? Schadenfreude (German: literal translation"harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes...

Trump is not the only madman in the solar system. What's bafflingly alarming is how many millions of voting supporters he retains, even after a decade of Trump deceit and treachery. Dozens of felony convictions. Party to bloody insurrection. & he's still in an MOE tie 2 months from the election...

So vote Harris / Walz 2024 ! Yes DJ, you may already have conspired to usurp women's right of choice. BUT !! You have not yet usurped women's right to vote against you. Tell us more Donald. Tell us much, more more between now & election day.

EEE has reached headline proportion in the Northeast U.S. Eastern equine encephalitis virus is spread to people by the bite of an infected mosquito. Only a few cases are reported in the United States each year. Most cases occur in eastern or Gulf Coast states. Although rare, eastern equine...

Nuclear warheads are old news. This Reuters report discloses not only nuclear warhead, but also nuclear propulsion, as mentioned below, presenting risk of "a radiation-spewing mishap". Exclusive-U.S. researchers find probable launch site of Russia's new nuclear-powered missile Jonathan Landay...

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. letter, Aug. 16,1890, to the editor of the Scots Observer. In answer to criticisms leveled at Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray The more things a man is ashamed...

Jasper Ward / Sat, August 31, 2024 at 11:07 AM EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested his support for the decriminalization of marijuana, saying taxpayer dollars should not be wasted arresting people carrying "personal amounts." "In Florida, like so...

The higher the sea level, the less beach there is. If sea level rose above the peak of Mt. Everest there would be zero beach.

Psychologist Joy Browne observes, when under stress it's common to revert to a more familiar behavior pattern. When Trump was running against Biden Trump's presidential future might have looked a little more rosy. Trump knows he's in trouble, and so seems to have lapsed into his more...

I thought the shirt-pocket transistor radio was years later. https://www.backthenhistory.com/articles/the-history-of-the-transistor-radio Guess not. Perhaps mass production hadn't lowered the price enough for them to proliferate right away. Many Silicon computer chips have transistors. In '54...

"The primitive simplicity of their minds (the masses) rend them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell the big ones ... The victor will never be asked if they told the truth. ... Success is the sole earthly judge of...

I'm not whining about the politics, just puzzled / annoyed with the style. Do we need the parental metaphor? There's soooo much substance to clobber Trump with. & it's premature to clobber Harris / Walz, not sure this team has anything we can legitimately call a track-record.

Did someone say "bio-chem blizzard wizard, but ..."? Something’s Poisoning America’s Farms. Scientists Fear ‘Forever’ Chemicals. Hiroko Tabuchi / Sat, August 31, 2024 at 10:50 AM EDT Corn fields where biosolids form Synagro were used as fertilizer, near Grandview, Texas on July 17, 2024...

There are passionate, and persuasive arguments on each side of the "guns vs butter" debate. BUT !! It seems General Horner not only has late word, but quite likely the last word on it: "There's no more extravagant waste than a 2nd rate military." Gen. Horner

& in the: sear just can't let it go, department - The following already well covered in this thread. But the story's more fun when FOX tells it. Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance was booed Thursday by some members of a firefighters union in Boston while delivering a speech in which...

Born in 1954 I remember the "Duck-&-Cover" drills during the Kennedy administration / Cuban Missile Crisis. The protocol is familiar, protect from building collapse by sheltering under desk. Back then is was nuclear Cold War stalemate. In the new millennium it's? Psychologically maladjusted...

Probably not unanimous either way, but I suspect some MAGA / dereg. advocates understand food safety regulations save lives, BUT losing a few here or there is simply the cost of more efficient government (& is therefore acceptable). If current campaign trends apply I gather Trump will not be...