We speculate so often that for intelligence like ours to evolve, conditions like ours have to have occurred. Insight, or lack of imagination?

So many ways to avoid this death, only one way for it to happen – guy with the gun pulls the trigger. Otherwise, it is nothing more than a street fist fight – a few bruises, T’s claim against Z’s claim.

What do we do? Defend the gun owners, of course.

BP – If you are back later, this comment is just to add to your @1 – as I read GA’s piece, I was creating a response in my mind much like yours. Although I strongly believe we can and should have a government and economic system that takes care of the health, education, food [...]

Thanks for the post (and commenter’s links), I’ve enjoyed remembering. I saw The Band live, first in 1974 in Seattle. Dylan (yes, Bob) was the headliner, but at $12 a ticket, I felt ripped off. Thanks to The Band, boy they made it worth it! By the way, I had to check online to be [...]

And it can be even longer than 2 weeks. According to Wikipedia:

Menstrual cycles are counted from the first day of menstrual bleeding, a point in time commonly termed last menstrual period (LMP). The time from LMP until ovulation is, on average, 14.6 days, but with substantial variation both between women and between cycles in any [...]

Made me double check! Yep, July 26th, the issue was debt ceiling and medicare, social security. It was long-winded, but on the topic I had written about.

Yep, Liz, I didn’t like the subject either. I basically said now was not the time to deal with the deficit – zero interest rates, cheap gov’t bonds, high unemployment, now is the time to spend on infrastructure jobs. Oh, and fix the medical system by getting insurance companies out of the health insurance business.

I’ve received responses from both Patty Murray’s and Maria Cantwell’s offices in the past, when responding to requests for my opinion, or when just writing to tell them about pending legislation. The response has always been a letter stating the Senator’s opinion on the topic I was writing about. I hit up Patty Murray more [...]

The primary needs to have a single, strong progressive running against Obama. If I understand the strategy you linked to, there will be 6 primary opponents – how easy will it be for the presidential debate hosts to look at a poll, and decide that no one has enough percentage following to rate an invitation [...]

Comments here have pointed out that a lot of readers of blogs and diaries just don’t read well – not completely, not with comprehension, not with empathy, not with an open mind. In addition, I believe that the _process_ of many readers who then comment is one or more of the following: a) Read the [...]

I can’t agree – I want corporations to lose their “personhood”. But if we do head down this road, by all means remove the many, many “deductions” corporations can use and real people can’t. So many corporations can use normal spending as deductions (business expansion as a deduction). Either people can use buying stuff to [...]

Thanks for this series, I’ve found it very interesting. Being an Alaskan, I understand the issue with forming a district of Alaskan natives is that the whole state only forms one congressional district. If it formed, say, 5 districts, it seems you could get a very high percentage of Eskimo and Athabaskan Indians by collecting [...]

My favorite comes from STNG – “Darmok”, using idioms like “Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra”, with the new phrase added: “Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel”. Of course, if we used language like that, we would have phrases like: “Ford and Kissinger at East Timor”, “Bush and the Pet Goat at Booker Elementary”, “McCain and Palin [...]