bernard wolsieffer
as an adjunct ideology:http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1400/fv01386.htmand I will claim that any one person or group of persons is thoroughly arrogant to be monolithic. Read More
In following the previous post, I will also suggest that President Nixon did more for this country than many people realized then, let alone now. He allowed people to see the difference between the president, and the Presidency.It is that difference that, perhaps, caused the topic question to begin ... Read More
I'm not sure that a government official elected by the populace through the distillation of the electoral college qualifies de facto as a moral harbinger. Given the process through which an individual achieves the Presidency, I would suggest rather the opposite, at least in our time. A revisiting of ... Read More
I would like to suggest that posters not be able to tweak the rating or vote on their own post. Seems self-defeating. Read More
I truly love the concept of the 'big picture'. But in this climate of 'spam filters' it isn't reaching enough of those who need to see it. I would love to say, for a forum such as this: the hell with spam filters - get people out there who don't necessarily have the 'contribute' meme active get this ... Read More
Let's look at some of the motivations for cheating in its various forms.One of them is one of the seven deadly sins: greed. Improving player stats is a great way to get a more lucrative contract, so a player may decide to cut corners. I will not deny that professional athletes work hard all their ... Read More
People who raise the hue and cry for the government to do something about the environmental issues the world faces should start the solution at the personal level. There are a myraid of things that an individual (multiply by approximately 200,000,000 to get the gross effect) can do on a daily basis ... Read More
There are two fundamental problems with this line of thinking in relation to vehicles:The Manufacturers are unwilling to participate except to the level of vehicle efficiency mandated by the government. The government is not going to change the efficiency improvement levels that are already in place ... Read More
As I was reviewing my posts from last night, a question occurred to me - would it be environmentally conscious of all major sports to schedule more day games to eliminate the need for the thousands of watts of lighting for night contests? I was apalled when Wrigley installed lights; I had been there ... Read More
[For the beginning of this thread, see http://www.bigthink.com/rest-diversions/7454].Babe Ruth had his beer and dogs; Paul Hornung (self-admittedly) had a near-all-night binge before Super Bowl I; Joe DiMaggio had Marilyn. Scandalous? Hardly. Public faux-pas? Certainly. Damaging to the profession ... Read More
Someone a while back (I think it was Bill James, but it has been a couple of decades since I read this) who pointed out some cultural ideas about the most popular sports in America.Football as an allegory for warBasketball as an allegory for street trafficI'm going to venture the connection and ... Read More
I'm glad this has been broached; I was getting ready to instigate some ideas on this over the next few days. In a tag to the NBA All-Star Game last night, Chris Rock pointed out that competition in sports gives many cultures an affirmative resolution - someone wins, someone loses (with the ... Read More
Heart is not enough - there should be some aesthetically redeeming value to music as well. For example, I would much rather listen to a klezmer band, a navajo story song, or kabuki, than grindcore, or rap where half the words the lyrics start with 'f'. Read More
I refer you to my post in art and add that I've been a musician for fifty years now (recalling that recently was actually quite sobering in and of its own right) Read More
I believe it was Thurgood Marshall (when deciding a pornography question):We'll know it when we see it.I take art to bee seen in that same spirit. De gustibus non disputandum. [There is no accounting for taste]And art has (almost) always reveled in that statement. Don't criticise what you don't ... Read More
There are segments of Wikipedia that are (peripatetically, in some cases) moderating the submissions to this volume of information; depending on the verbiage and logic within the topic submissions I take it with either a convincing level of veracity or an incredulous mental spit-take. Given my ... Read More
Although I am not a thorough scholar of constitutional law, i will suggest that an examination of the Forteenth Amendment might give some clue to the distinction.This from www.usconstitution.net:Amendment 141. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to thejurisdiction ... Read More
Although it may seem a trivial answer, at an individual level, the meaning of life is what meaning the individual gives it. As a species, the jury is very much still out, and probably will be for another two or three centuries, if at all. Unless one subscribes to the notion of omniquantism or to the ... Read More
G.K. Chesterton wrote:He attacked logic - it's bad theology.One way to 'justify' faith, would be to read either Chesterton, or Aquinas. Both did a very elegant job, within their individual lights. Read More
About bernard wolsieffer
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