"I challenge you to a duel!"
What drives people to engage in such mutually destructive activities like personal duels where both individuals may be killed or permanently maimed?
Human beings are social creatures and unconsciously place a high premium on social status. As if by magic, children perceive and internalize the social [...]
Mike Rowe, who hosts “Dirty Jobs” on the Discovery Channel, has spoken several times about farming and farm life - and how sometimes farmers do indeed know the best way to do what they do. (See this video on lamb castration, farming and hard work.)The University of California has announced that they need to hike undergraduate fees by 32%. Here's the snippet that draws my attention:
Mark Yudof, the university president, said the state budget cuts had left the university no choice but to raise fees, and noted that the system received only' [...]
As the primary season politicking starts en vigor, there is the question as to what is foremost on the minds of Americans and, particularly, conservative voters. In the Ron Paul camp, we’re hoping that people are starting to understand the wretched mess we’re in due to creeping socialism and the [...]
To me its an example of the incompetence and the contradictions that result from the incompetence of those holding and vying for power. It confirms my suspicion, in order to survive and succeed at least for a while in politics (a) you must not know [...]
Sometimes, a short news clip can be very insightful:
What would a news report on guns be without showing the Black Panthers? At 03:10, Captain Doug asks how the public can be protected from a person that clearly has a firearm on their person. Yes, [...]
We have two podcasts this week.Concepts that are insufficiently thought through cause more harm to mankind than anything else of our own making.
If you care for people, do not try to defy reality.
Differences between human beings are an integral part of the human condition. They cannot be removed without [...]
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