I taught a class to high-school aged kids not long ago and was struck by the extent to which young people are seemingly unable to distinguish reality from a position asserted with the object of convincing others of its truth. It seemed to be much more than a political or ideological preference; rath...

"Playing hard to get" is simply evolutionary biology at work, don't you think? I mean it's like, "okay guys, who is the fittest among you who would like your genes to survive with me - show me what you got". Rape is when someone takes away the woman's power of natural selection ...

"Playing hard to get" is simply evolutionary biology at work, don't you think? I mean it's like, "okay guys, who is the fittest among you who would like your genes to survive with me - show me what you got". Rape is when someone takes away the woman's power of natural selection ...

I tend to agree with you WiseOne, that something probably did occur, but most likely it involved drunkenness, mixed messages, the usual teenage fumbling, and a good dose of Saturday morning remorse. But that's a far cry from what's being alleged. We live in a culture where much of communication cons...

As all of these women's testimony unravels, the response of the "true believers" has become even more shrill and even hysterical. I was the unfortunate attendee of an agricultural seminar last weekend in which the topic turned, without warning, to the Kavanaugh hearings. Several of the wom...

Thanks for your thoughts on this, WiseOne! I was secretly hoping you might send a kernel of advice my way! Fortunately I've got nothing else tugging at me today, so I'll get this squared away one way or another. I did take a look at the CDC stats on tetanus--200-something cases in the U.S. in 7 year...

I'm not sure this anecdote is exactly on point, but it does go to show how myopic the system can be when it comes to coercing patients into needless preventive care. Just yesterday I managed to fall onto a barbed wire fence and sustained a deep puncture wound. It's been eons since my last tetanus va...

And so it seems that Kavanaugh is either a perfect exemplar of judicial expertise and impeccable moral conduct, or he is a lying rapist determined to destroy and control the lives of all women. Ghomeshi is evil, and granting any space for such a monster to defend or account for himself is itself an...

They're going to force you to sit through a training session designed to publicly cast you and your fellow female colleagues as fragile little girls whose vulnerabilities require understanding and intervention? Sounds discriminatory to me.

Remember that Sen. Feinstein has had this information, which was subsequently passed on to the FBI, since July. There is no chance in hell that this matter has not been investigated from top to bottom since that time. And the result: Absolutely nothing in the way of corroboration, and not even a cre...

Public shaming? Because in this society (particularly within her peer group) chastity is such a sacrosanct value? Seems that this woman has just been given more time to "decide" whether or not to pursue her allegations. "Decide?" Gee, it didn't take much deliberation on her part ...

It's amazing how the interpretation of events changes to fit the mood of the day. Remember Anita Hill describing how Justice Thomas cracked a joke, in the company of a whole group of law clerks, about there being a pubic hair on his coke? It didn't take a lot of imagination--then or now--to picture ...

Brings to mind the scathing commentary on "date rape" by Camille Paglia aired on 60 Minutes at least three decades ago. Nothing like a feminist-lesbian-liberal cultural critic with a penchant for truth-telling to put things in perspective.

Actually, I don't like the $50K deductible plan, because the huge expensive structure that drives up the cost of routine office visits, tests, and meds would all remain in place. I would like to see those things removed from the arena of insurance entirely, and made all self-pay. Third party billin...

. . . Medicare reimbursements are lower than what private insurance companies pay, so there would be even more savings - at some cost to institutions & physicians who would see a large income reduction. Which hopefully would be balanced out by the reduction in overhead costs. . . In fact, Medic...

Isn't one of the driving arguments for "Single Payer" to have one large negotiator to keep down healthcare prices rather than a system of subsidized insurance that just pays whatever bill it is given? When that "one large negotiator" is a government entity controlled by the same...

Thanks for posting. This, and other types of anti-free-market behavior (aided and abetted by bought-and-paid-for legislators and regulators), appears to me to be THE reason for the skyrocketing health care costs that, we are told, make even more government intervention necessary. When I hear people ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhF_koy11lA

Guaranteed to get your feet tapping and your legs bouncin' all over the place. Turn up the volume and enjoy!

> All kinds of new businesses are springing up, as though somebody flipped a switch. And the "help wanted" signs, which have been nonexistent for as long as I can remember, seem to be everywhere. So folks were sitting around twiddling their thumbs under Obama, unable to figure out how to ...

WiseOne, if you have time, would you post pictures? Our winter is VERY long, so I'm interested in anything relating to indoor growing. Could your system be used on a scale that could provide a meaningful yield through the winter? With what types of vegetables are you having the greatest success?

I spent the afternoon taking care of business in a nearby small town which has been economically depressed for the entire time I've been here (almost 9 years now). All kinds of new businesses are springing up, as though somebody flipped a switch. And the "help wanted" signs, which have bee...

It takes a lot more than a 990 to prove a vast left-wing-only-but-still-establishment-corporatist-liberal-communist conspiracy. You see, this is exactly what I'm talking about. You initially took exception to my point that there was a connection between George Soros and Antifa. I point to the 990s-...

It's one thing to question the source of a thesis of you have a bona fide reason for believing it to be wrong. It's another when it becomes a habitual way of responding to an argument with which you do not agree and when its purpose is to wear down an opponent rather than to promote legitimate argum...

I just don't know how Maddy is building up those conclusions about "The Left" being such a unique and monolithic political force... its not that the left is a unique an monolithic political force, its that those who would seek to be at the top of any monolithic political force have shared...

Here's an article I read some months ago regarding Soros: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/soros-philanthropy/547247/ I'd like to see a source from Maddy though. Nope. If you're really interested (and I don't believe you are), there are a ton of sources on the internet that link...