Plato's Magical Mystery Cave

Interesting historical tidbit found on Quora... (Comment posted by Henry Morgan, in response to topic posted by Brian Hands) Q: Why do Repub...

  The purpose of the debt ceiling was never supposed to be to limit growth of the debt. As I understand it, the purpose was to eliminate an ...

(A post from David Gerrold's facebook page. 2015-11-01) We live in a world of disrespect. And the reason we live in a world of disr...

The universe is vast, and we residents of this pale blue dot are so very, very tiny. There is so much that we don't know.  We are awar...

I wish we'd stop giving away the narrative to Republicans by accepting their heavily-biased "cliff" metaphor. A grand bargain...

The following story is from This is True dated 17 July 2005. It is Copyright 2005 Randy Cassingham, all rights reserved, and reprinted here...

Hank and Carol had been happily married for twenty-two years. The only friction in their marriage was Hank's habit of farting loudly ev...

The reason things are such a mess these days is largely because too few people vote. When people refuse to exercise their civic duty, they ...

I recently heard someone assert that  Obama supporters look at the present from the paradigm of the past. It's sad really.I can ad...