LDAHL
Senior Member

That’s an excellent suggestion. Having updated some estate planning documents this past week, the suggestion was made we write our own obituaries...

We subscribe to our local paper. My wife has a strange fascination with obituaries. She thinks of them as little biographies.

Every post is unnecessary.

Think nothing of it. That epithet has been so overused I see it more as a sort of bookkeeping designation than a personal insult.

Don’t worry. I was just dealing with some stuff in what we jokingly call the real world.

If you don’t like it, just don’t go there.

BLM has scrubbed their website of pretty much all the manifesto stuff from the early days. It looks like now it’s pretty much press releases and...

Once again, I don’t see that one party acting irresponsibly is any kind of defense for the other party acting irresponsibly.

There is no shortage of blame on both sides, not that the excesses of either excuses those of the other. But if only a fraction of the planned new...

Until you run out of straw.

There seem to be fashions in education that ebb and flow. I remember as an undergraduate biology student in the 70s a case where a lecturer had...

I think like many other influences on our behavior, there is a combination of nature and nurture at play. Our evolutionary history probably had good...

Is that some primordial fear of snakes at work?

I do, but only a part. But then again, I’m a racist.

Despite the cogent arguments of t-shirt based analysis, I still think you’re wrong.

I think it’s probably a mistake trying to explain complex events with a simplistic race reductionism. There are too many political and cultural...

There’s a great piece in National Review that argues that the cure for Trumpism is Reaganism. I’m inclined to agree. IL is absolutely right about NR....

The streets paved with gold could be attached to an infrastructure bill. While a chicken in every pot might offend vegan constituents, pot in every...

I don’t think, and I didn’t say, this was normal. Neither were any of the other violent incidents around the country. I think violence should be...

Looks like the second seat will go to the Democrats as well. We’ll get to see what wonders they can perform.

I said I was opposed to political violence by any name. You seem to think by not sharing your heated rhetoric I am somehow “defending” something.

I heard they had to detonate a bomb at the Republican National Committee HQ.

What is it you think I am defending?

I don’t. Nor do I think the US government can be overthrown by a group of protesters in DC. Predictably, people’s outrage here seems to vary by their...

I think they’ll still be a factor as long as the 60 vote rule remains in place.

Has the Senate ever been split down the middle before? I would think that made selecting a majority leader problematic.

Yes. And look what happened to the Republic

H L Mencken said every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Well, if we see a military coup in the next week I’ll be willing to admit I’m wrong.

Or you can sit on the beach demanding other people toss some starfish.

We are coming up on the anniversary of the killing of Soleimani, and various unofficial and semiofficial hotheads have been promising unspecified...

There is no shortage of gloating commentary over this guy’s death. You’d need a blind spot the size of Jupiter to miss it. “Yay freedumb”?

There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of grave dancing out there.

If income inequality is so wrong, why not literally put your money where your mouth is and gift your way down to the middle class? Pledges are a...

According to the article, Social Security and Medicare would be among the programs eliminated to make that 5-14K possible. I’m not sure that even if...

I don’t think you need to worry about the coming generation not being steeped in the culture of denunciation. Look at that recent episode where one...

I share Bae’s view on involuntary servitude. Whatever benefits accrue from forcing people to work together can’t really justify the forcing part.

Come the revolution such false consciousness will need to be extirpated through struggle sessions, re-education camps and an appropriately sanitized...

At least a couple of Joe Biden’s appointees have advocated some program of mandatory or “social norm” national service. As always with such matters,...

Why reduce human beings to the shading of their skin when postal codes are so much simpler?

I see he decided to sign it in the end after maximizing the agitation. He seems to me to be in an “apre moi le deluge” mood.

Probably because it was good for tourism.

Wow. My unruly neighbors sometimes shovel my sidewalks without my permission. I only see guns during deer season.

I never understood the attraction of gun- fondling or this sort of gun porn we see here.

Merry Christmas to all. Here’s hoping the coming year will be less horrible.

Maintaining and deploying space-based assets for communication, navigation and surveillance, and negating the enemy’s assets for those purposes....

They do seem damned effective at sucking the joy out of literature in this era of deconstruction and ideologically driven analysis.

Reduced to a puppet. But still less degraded than Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk.

My mother’s father named his first son James and his first daughter Joyce. He might have taken issue with accusing Joyce of UK sensibilities, viewing...

When I see what Hollywood has done to Marvel characters, I want to weep.

Lenspersons maybe.

Back in ancient times, I worked with them at their Wallops Island facility. They were dreadful in terms of keeping to schedules and providing...

I see in the Atlantic that the Democratic Party of NYC is trying to delay implementing rank-choice voting, which they pushed for in a referendum...

I see the Democratic leadership and the Squad are on board for a bigger handout.

Maybe this prediction will come true. 997th try’s the charm.

I stopped working in January to help a spouse with health issues and a child going to school remotely. I learned how hard it can be to be someone...

It must take a lot of pushing to create scandals around a guy who’s been dead for five years.