I return to the point I made weeks ago.

If anyone is on a forum like this, jabbering away about Supreme Court precedent and constitutional history, and they don't know what stare decisis is, I might as well be reading economic analysis from someone who can't make change.

Not snobbery. Common sense.

I'd rather talk theology with you.

47.

You do a lot of research, but you're not well read.

You seem to be tied up like a pretzel in lots of different ways.

I got issues, too. Don't worry.

We're not interested in law. I hated Business Law in college. Dry and boring.
#47 | Posted by BillJohnson

JFC, Bill, you're on here all the freaking time talking about the law.

42, 43.

One of the nice things about Judaism. As the scholars have asserted for centuries, you can be just about anything and still be Jewish. Even atheist.

Some would say even Messianic.

I draw the line there, personally. At that point, everyone can throw everyone else out of the pool for not being Christian enough or according to one's own well-researched standards.

42. There's a whole world of JuBus.

Jewish Buddhists.

43. I didn't call you out for having to research something, obviously. I value research. Good for you.

I only wish you had more to show for it here on the DR.

39.

Buddy, I've been reading theological and university press manuscripts and books for the last 30 years.

Before you start questioning the theology, as you always do, I am a freelancer, which means I can't just "research" to prove the points I want to make.

If I want to eat, I read what I'm sent, which means everything from SBC Baptists to leftwing Presbyterians, hard left and hard right wing Catholics, and a hell of a lot of straight biblical interpretation. I've read both testaments and analyses of them a few times over.

And the university presses provide me with a lot of original research that hasn't found its way into academia yet.

I've worked on a few award winners, including a Pulitzer this year.

Which is why I want to throw up my hands at posters who have nothing more than "Got a link?"

And I'm a Taoist Jew. As another poster says here, Swallow it.

25. You highlighted the wrong words.

Maladaptive for modern diets.

Modern diets are killing everybody.

24. Legal beagle, citer of court cases, hall monitor for Christianity ...

Oh, heaven forfend, where would we be without this gift?

24. Bill Johnson, constitutional scholar, although no one in his well-read household knew what stare decisis is.

15. If I were you, I'd be avoiding discussion of life in the US also.

What about in their home languages?

Actually, low literacy in home languages is also a problem because of lack of access to education there, given domestic turmoil or oppressive governments.

Damn those immigrants for wanting education for their children. The horrors!

Trump's fantasy is Tiananmen in DC.

Hannah Arendt has lots of great quotes and thoughts to her credit.

And among the relationships in her life.

AI:

Martin Heidegger: A famously passionate, complex affair during her student years; he was her professor, lover, and later, a Nazi sympathizer, a fact she confronted but ultimately reconciled with in a unique way, using her influence to help his reputation.

Kamala: Not a great candidate, and just about all authors are self-serving ego whores. They'll do a lot to sell books.

News flash:

"Sentient Beings Worldwide: Trump Tells Blatant Lies Daily to Try to Run a Country (into the Ground)."

I'd be all for Kamala Harris fading from public view. No problem at all.

A giant and a genius. Didn't need a million notes.

2. Reitz? He discovered the camera two years before companies admitted it was in there and wondered about it. Then came the Free Reitz thread.

You can still see his guitar videos on YouTube. Priceless.

I always had huge respect for him and Laura for using their real names here.

And what, pray tell, will be the 'profession' of that young male gammerstang staring awkwardly into space?

Trying to outrun a lifetime of fully paid-for humiliation.

3. That's what I'm saying. I don't know what happened to my comment.

Scroll through. Susan Dell is a freak show. No photo seems to present a better angle.

12. I like the big white spot where the coal mines are. Don't need pesticides there.

Just mountaintop removal.

"Mortality rates, Parkinson's disease, dementia, tendency to violence, birth defects, or average IQ levels" all still apply.

12. My wife's been on Medicare six years. The COLA increase and the basic Medicare premium usually move in lockstep. If one goes up x percent a year, the other goes up by x.25. And I understood that before these times, it was ever thus.

If this formula changes drastically, there'll be hell to pay.

"Speaking Mexican is not a crime."
Should be. We are an English speaking nation. Why not assimilate?

#63 | Posted by boaz

"Language is nothing but a dialect with an army." (Some philosopher.)

Speaking "Mexican" should be a crime? Here comes Boaz, who fought like Superman for everyone's freedom, with his irrational fear of the day. Boaz hears Spanish, thinks, Well, there's a criminal act.

I wonder how Boaz feels when he reads Madbomber and Coriolanus speak about the military with a sense of history and a seemingly high degree of intelligence, while he brays about he did "great stuff" for the world while checking off the days before he could start getting his lifetime bennies.

Someone needs their addies and xannies adjusted.

#6 | Posted by RightisTrite

I'm doing domestic experiments on this right now. A wonderful breakfast cocktail for productivity.

I originally read the headline as Trump Reveal.

"Guess what, kids? You just thought your parents were pigs?"

DR weasels not gonna like the Financial Times link, but whatcha gonna do?

I was surprised enough it wasn't paywalled.