Steve Dustcircle

There is a common feeling that you can’t make a decent living without an advanced degree. I have an advanced degree and never got close to as wealthy as a good electrician, carpenter, plumber, elevator mechanic, dental hygienist, or HVAC technician.

And many of these well-paying trade jobs can’t be exported to where labor is cheap. You can’t…[Read more]

Pope, I agree with your take on Jewish culture. I know so many Jews who are atheists, yet they still practice many of the cultural attachments of the religion. Sometimes it is out of respect for the elders or family and sometimes just because they find it enjoyable. And here’s the thing…it’s no big deal if they don’t believe. The family still…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Another great Jewish contributor in history of thought. Tiny percentage of humans.

100%. I mentioned before, one of my best friends is an agnostic atheist rabbi in his 80s, and he’s still a community-serving dynamo every day. He inspires not by judging or preaching, but by listening and contributing to every conversation, and by…[Read more]

When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his…[Read more]

I like the way he presents his ideas, but I’m still new to him and can’t determine how right he is over time. I’m prompted to add whatever Fareed Zakaria said… so I have to watch that now… finally. (It’s nine days old.)

So Zakaria makes sense to me, too. His main points are made in the first 6-1/2 minutes, and the rest is with two guests.

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Unseen wrote:
Unexpectedly, perhaps, PETA runs a so-called “shelter” with an unusually high kill rate.

jakelafort wrote:
Horse racing is to evil practices what Israel is to Iran and its proxies. Your focus is once again as sharp as Magoo.

Unseen wrote:
@ Jake Horses. You’re “defense” is to change the subject.

Oooookay, what have I done to d…[Read more]

I think underneath the big political rift in the US, there is a growing educational divide. Those without an economically useful tech degree really got hit harder by “globalization” and the offshoring of manufacturing. Everyone is not for college, there are all sorts of avenues to success that we don’t even explore. Hell, I don’t even think they…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Neo nazis demonstrating. Much more to come. So refreshing. Make America guhreat again. The far right enabled and emboldened. None of this hiding behind the zionist entity, colonialist settlers, genocide, apartheid cloack. Lefty morons the world over with an ersatz rational basis for their hatred. Academics being the seminal…

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@ Jake

Horses. You’re “defense” is to change the subject.

jakelafort wrote:
Our regard for nonhuman animals is shameful.

But apparently that doesn’t include the “sport” of horse racing, which regularly breaks horse’s legs as they are forced to run harder and faster than their legs can safely bear. But, unlike a human with a broken leg, it’s not a matter of putting the leg in a cast and enduring weeks…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

jakelafort wrote:
Our regard for nonhuman animals is shameful. If they’re pets they are beloved.

Irresponsibly loved. Each year, approximately 2.7 million pets are euthanized (1.2 million dogs and 1.4 million cats) worldwide.

Unexpectedly, perhaps, PETA runs a so-called “shelter” with an unusually high kill rate.

I should add more context to what I’m aiming for.

There’s a guy in Oklahoma who has set some specific requirements regarding how Christianity should be taught in the OK school system. He has pretended to offer options in reading materials, while the only material that can possibly pass his minimum requirements is the Trump Bible.

I’m imagining…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Our regard for nonhuman animals is shameful. If they’re pets they are beloved.

Irresponsibly loved.  Each year, approximately 2.7 million pets are euthanized (1.2 million dogs and 1.4 million cats) worldwide.

But it is also sometimes wrong and, unlike religion, is willing to say so: