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Some "bad speech" is error based on vague or ambiguous wording. Others deliberate falsification. In our culture science is considered the criterion of truth. It has not been ever thus. AND Science is peer reviewed. Though no to peers the same, they mostly all play by the same rule book...

The Republicans Are Considering Something Truly Shocking: Raising Taxes on the Rich Jim Newell / Wed, April 16, 2025 "... despite some GOP leaders’ initial laughter, the idea isn’t going away." https://news.yahoo.com/news/republicans-considering-something-truly-shocking-094000564.html U.S...

Politics · Politico Canada professors association tells academics to stay away from US The announcement comes as President Donald Trump continues to crack down on higher education and international students.

This might seem like good news. Why shield child abusers? Right? For starters this would breach the separation between Church & State. Second, it would be likely to diminish the candor in the confessional, but may not necessarily diminish the abuse. The result: Preserve the sanctity of the...

? It is troglodytically ignorant to conflate evolution with death. Death is considered terminal. Femininity is not. Not only is feminism not dead. There are more women alive today than ever before. It's called a "population explosion" for a reason. The glass ceiling still thumps a skull or two...

Yes Eric, BUT !! in these examples cited in #1,892 we substituted an incompletely formulated perception with information obtained after the initial formulation was made.

In landmark ruling, UK's top court says legal definition of woman refers to biological sex Britain's highest court ruled on Wednesday that only biological and not trans women meet the definition of a woman under equality laws, a landmark decision greeted with concern by trans supporters but...

“You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) That might seem to address though not excuse the error/s resulting in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's deportation to El Salvador. It does not excuse Trump ignoring SCOTUS' ruling to...

Banana A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. ... Worldwide, there is no sharp distinction between dessert "bananas" and cooking "plantains": this distinction works well enough in...

Yes, but: El Salvador is considered by some to be a dictatorship. Even if we accept the absurdity so charmingly framed in #501, how do we explain a dictator that can't remove a captive from his own prison? It would be a conspicuous compound absurdity if not for the fact that it's nonsense. It's...

Earth is awash in bigotry. This post #668 is not intended to minimize or dismiss that. But the poly-gender spectrum is not best served with ignorance, counter-denial. For well-known reasons human sexes are institutionally treated as a binary despite words to the contrary long established in our...

... and then: nightfall ... The ghouls and zombies quivered in terror under their beds ...

That would be news to me. Alarming, horrifying news. At some level federal operations are funded. But on basis of a bounty, per person? I hope that's not the case. "If the spirit of Liberty dies in the hearts of men & women, no court will ever revive it." Learned Hand - American jurist, during...

Thus deporting them is a net detriment. El Salvador seems eager to receive them. It's likely El Salvador is being paid by the U.S. per prisoner. Not only being paid, but being paid enough to make a profit. Thus, this Trump illegal deportation binge is $costing $U.S. It's a disgrace.

My #493 was vague. It's easy to perceive in binary terms. But ICE is a paramilitary organization, including gun-toting troops displaying rank and unit insignia on their paramilitary uniforms. The troops that arrested this individual have a chain of command. And that commander has to authorize...

On whose orders? What orders? "First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out- because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a...

Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex. Trump is at the "prison industrial complex". * * If reports are accurate, these former residents were a net benefit, paying taxes, providing labor. As wards of the State they're costing $Thousands, perhaps $Tens of $thousands. The...

Politics: the art of compromise Ireland can keep Rosie O'Donnel if we can keep Kelly O'Donnell. Deal ? Subject to further negotiation, the world renown IRA terrorist Patty O'Furniture. Better that than a Tesla.

Who is "we"? This yea / nay polarization provides an alarming if familiar distinction. We clarify this specific political dispute by acknowledging the role of...

But that is precisely the utility of the divine imprimatur. * I know this quote is commonly attributed to Seneca, but it is mistakenly attributed to him. How do I know this? In Volume 1 of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", written by Edward Gibbon, he writes, "“The various modes of...