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Another possible solution is to require surgeons to have the same qualifications as politicians. Might not do the success/survival rate much good, but wait times will plummet!

For most developed soccer countries, there are SIX trophies available to club teams. . . 1. The League Championship. 2. The League Cup (a tournament that runs alongside the scheduled season). 3. The Champions or Europa Cup. 4. The UEFA Supercup (Champions v. Europa winners) 5. The League...

Vlad the Impaler was a military hero who was key to the defeat of an invading Ottoman army through the first use in Europe of cannon in warfare. Impalement was a well-known and widely practiced method of execution in that time/place.

I see it as kinda like religion. The rule, enforced by courts of law, not "tribunals," in the U.S. was (freely interpreted by me) "You can do whatever you want, discriminate against whomever you want, exclude and abuse whomever you want. . . in your church. When you exit your church, and...

Why is it that the right came up with the term "FAKE NEWS?"

That's why I don't care about racism. I believe in everybody's right to hold dear whatever fucked-up shit makes them feel all warm and cuddly. I care about discrimination.

That's a criminal court. Here discrimination is a civil matter. Shouldn't be, but there it is.

We don't have tribunals. We have courts of law. Y'all should try it sometime.

Or, y'all (and we) could just fold our tents and let racism run any ol' way it wants to. Call it "freedom of speech" and "freedom of association."

In a parliamentary system, all governments end in failure.

Pure. . . what?

That's the spirit! We'll have none of this Librul Commie child safety! They're great for mining and for oiling machine parts as well. Don't even have to shut down the machine!

No! Non! Leave them exactly where they are so old people will have something else to complain about!

Yeah, from Caesar and Cleopatra, written over 100 years ago about events over 2000 years ago. Things don't change much, do they?

How close is too close? "Near British airspace" is selling-airtime-speak for "in international airspace." "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."...

Shaw had an edge to his wisdom. My favorite is "Pardon him, Theodotus, he is a barbarian and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."

Logic is indeed simple. Yet so few understand it, or use it. Makes a body wonder if we're as smart as we like to claim.

Difference between a speaker and a talker.

I'd say it's a sign of getting lucky more. How's that not good?

Pretty much. There's also the fact that most of them have no education or training in quantum theory, or any physics beyond Newton, if even that. Are you claiming that that you didn't need it explained to you?