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Penn Gillette of Penn and Teller wrote an essay about Las Vegas and characterized it as city built on "bad math". He said everyday, thousands of people travel to Las Vegas and see waterfalls in the desert, pyramids, and places where the lights are never turned off. According to Gillette, none of...

That's only eight people, so it's possible one person could cater to everyone's demands. That person would need to have an obligation to the others, which can be imposed, or happily assumed. How long they can or will maintain this is another question. There is a limit to the number of personal...

Will Rogers said, "Communism looks good on paper, but nobody has ever been able to make it work." That's the basic problem. Every country which has tried to institute Marxism has devolved into a police state. It sort of works for small groups. A family is a kind of Marxist society. "From each...

For centuries, philosophers have a civilized society as one having a written language. It's great to have someone who can record the great things the current king has done, but the real basis of civilization is plumbing. The number of people who can live in a small area depends on how much water...

I have three children and the youngest is now 42, but each of them is still my child. The word child has never had definite boundaries and common usage has pushed the upper limit higher in the past couple centuries. The laws that deal with this sort of thing seldom use the word child. This is...

When Paul told the Galatians that circumcision was not necessary to join a Christian community, this was salesmanship, not theology.

Ted Cruz has never been recognized for his eloquence. It's difficult to make an argument that is contrary to one's own beliefs and sound convincing. Brain and body language will reveal what one wants to conceal. I'm sure Ted thought he said 'let's stop protecting pedophiles,' and was as...

I believe Carl Sagan speculated on several different models of the universe in his "Cosmos" television series. In on model, the universe starts with a Big Bang, expands to a certain point, contracts back into a black hole and becomes a singularity, which big bangs again. He made an offhand...

I doubt we'll see any flags at half mast, but it might be more efficient is we just cut all the flag poles in half.

What is shameful is that the people who inflicted the trauma which led to one stroke and four suicides have been excused for their crimes because their political views coincide with the current power. It is an even greater shame to dismiss the loss of these men as irrelevant to this discussion...

Are you serious? I know one person who does not think those who assaulted cops, (which resulted in a higher than average short term death rate for law enforcement) deserve to be in prison. You may have heard of him. He's on Fox News all the time. "On May 2, 1973, Shakur participated in a...

Haven't you heard? Since Jan6, killing cops is no longer a crime.

I'll take your word for it. I used to work with a guy who was spending about $100 on porn site subscription(circa 1995). When I asked why he was paying for what was available for free, he said, "You get better stuff." I would never discount the personal touch. I have a friend who was a phone...

As with all commerce of this type, GFE is a premium product.

If we ever find a planet that has a lifeform, however simple or complex, they are not the aliens, we are.

In the classical economic model, Sophie is the exploiter. Her audience are the exploited. She has a product which has a great demand and she can set the price to maximize return. In the example of a concert, there are a finite number of seats. If the seats are sold cheap, money is missed. If the...

In the Economic Science world, this is called "exploitation". Sophie controls a limited resource and can demand a higher price because the demand is great. This is the same principle that explains why a seat on a bus costs less than a seat at a Taylor Swift concert. Sophie is closer to Taylor's...

Today one of Facebook's many historical pages posted a photograph from the early 1950s which showed a room filled with about 100 Polio victims in iron lungs. For the youngsters in the crowd, an iron lung was a pressurized chamber. The Polio sufferer was put in it with their head sticking out the...

The word minion comes from Old French, where it meant a favorite or darling, in the sense of "teacher's pet". It came to be used to describe a Monarch's favorite at court and from there became someone who would do anything to please their master. The main difference between a henchman and a...

After years of research, I can say, a person's interest in sex after any arbitrary age is fully dependent on their interest before that age. Of all the impulses, compulsions, and instinctual responses we are subject to when young, sex is the easiest to let go. As with anything, the more one...