Recent content by finesse

Are you serious? As close as both elections were, you don't believe misogyny didn't make a difference and probably the deciding one?

Adjust for religious beliefs. The stronger and more dogmatic, the less commitment to cause and effect and more allowance for the hand of God, fate, providence or whatever.

Stupid humans and an uncaring universe is hard for some people to swallow.

https://www.amazon.com/Use-Enough-Gun-Hunting-Game/dp/1571570594 ETA: One of UNC's own.

You did but you worked for your money, too. There's some time and effort there. Knowing what you're doing and not buying it to ride takes some of the adventure out of it.

I don't think so but that's an answer for history and whoever gets to write it. Nobody much sings the Horst Wessel Song anymore.

I think we're a little more likely to accept that we have to address the conventional wisdom before we reject it. On our good days, we might even let it alter how we reject it. It amounts to us making fewer decisions based on received wisdom of dubious origin, a damned good idea for anybody...

MAGA may be making the meaning and need for their idea of asylum to make a comeback.

Sounds like some sort of mind meld with Trump. I guess it could be coincidental that both exist amid a farrago of lies.

Twice the fun for twice the price.

I was at a friend's garage once some 15 years or so ago marveling at the fact that he had to take the right front tire and wheel well lining out to recharge the AC on my Ford Focus so he took me make in to show me, I think an El Dorado where you had to pull the head to replace the starter. I...

Some mix of misogyny and macho is likely more prevalent in minority cultures than among whites. There's going to be some people who will not vote for a woman even when it's a mistake for them. Fwiw, I wonder if we compared educational, financial and social status instead of culture how it would...

My wife just gave me the nastiest look. I told her that the bird feeders were getting extra attention today. I then merely informed her when she worried about them being cold that they were heavily into down jackets. I thought she'd find it reassuring.

You ought to be pleased that's all. There's a long belief in divine intervention, manifest destiny, inspired and specially blessed leaders and literal miracles (magic) that a tremendous percentage of the population were taught with their milk language. Even when they grow past those and accept a...

Helps him understand how insignificant an achievement it is.