Fogbow

Therein lies one of the sadnesses of American life: perhaps this argument could happen anywhere, and anybody in any country can lose their temper, and some will will progress to violent intentions or actual violence. But because guns are accessible, instead of a fist fight, a complaint to authoritie...

To be honest, I’m surprised more trials don’t end in acquittals. But I don’t think jurors really understand (or care about) reasonable doubt. Not a lawyer, not a juror, not a jurist, but that might well be true. I'm not a complete fuckwit but I'm sure I'd struggle with managing the evidence and arg...

Checks, personal or otherwise: organizations typically allow directors and staff to purchase items or services with personal funds and later be reimbursed by the organization. So a personal payment is not direct evidence of a payment by the company. But but but … if the organization's records show a...

P&E: Speculation Growing over Trump’s VP Pick : On Monday’s “The Benny Show” hosted by Benny Johnson, a donor meeting held at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate this past weekend might have provided a hint as to who the 45th president and 2024 presumptive Republican presidential nominee will choo...

p0rtia wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 4:36 pm Can't wait to see how they try to get around "Grossing up" for "Tax Purposes".

Oh, I think most reasonable people thing Trump is gross!

That's sad. I can't claim to have known Gregg as a flesh-and-blood being but I enjoyed his posts, his explanations, his attitudes, his opinions.

My sympathy to those closer to Gregg whose loss is so much greater.

With regard to Sunday school teaching, Kristi Noem probably misunderstood then diligently implemented Matthew 19:14 (tone of voice: action hero growl): Jesus said: "Suffer, little children!"

Good luck with it Foggy! "Sweet sorrow" seems to be the operative phrase. Even for non-believers, it works well to devise a memorial service that not only works for the living participants (giving them joy, closure, acceptance, snacks, whatever they wish) but also one that you think the ma...

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 3:09 pm He's holding his ear so his brains don't leak out. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. I don't know where my brother in Oregon is finding these, but I love them.

These days you can buy an applicator to insert more sawdust into a leaky cranium if you find your IQ dropping.

How or why the Neanderthals and Denisovans disappeared about 40,000 years ago is the subject of speculation. Sadly, I think we were very, very mean to them, to the point where we wiped them from the face of the planet. :blackeye: Indeed. However, that hypothesis is not proven (yet?) and there are o...

With coffee and nothing better to do via ex-mormons I found myself at Baptist News Global. It has a piece by Robert P. Jones Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle . Jones' main point is that political attention is directed mainly at the religious extremes and falls to adequately consid...

keith wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 5:01 am One of my long ago roommates grew up next door to one of the LDS Presidents.

So he had discount codes for the magic underwear?

Interesting views, thanks all. I hadn't considered the English (? I don't know its history) pantomime tradition. Of course dames are cross-dressing and thus (arguably?) drag, but doesn't raise the same doubt in my mind, probably because it is so cartoonish. Probably Barry Humphries too. Anyway, the ...

There's a natural tendency to look at the past where the pews were full and think that the expression of doctrine in services back then was the cause of that. One of the biggest traps in logical thinking is mistaking correlation for causality, so it's pretty natural to think that if you resume Lati...

Is that similar to Barbara Billingsley speaking jive in Airplane..... Still one of my favorite scenes in any movie, and that's all I'm going to say. Those of us without a lifetime's knowledge of US tv missed the clever disjunction of using Barbara Billingsley for that scene … and probably similar r...

C'mon, we know that Mike – our kid – is channeling his memories of discussions of Arkell v. Pressdram on the pages of Ye Olde Fogbowe, the debates that took the lad from the squalid alleys of military life and the festering pits of evolutionary biology to the bright lights and sun-soaked beaches of ...

It's narthex. And pews. Genuine question, what is not pews? (So to speak.) Benches? Seats? I never attended lectures in hermeneutic eschatology so some major issues escape me. Chairs Ah! I thought it was a terminological question rather than object/function-related. So: stand chairs benches pews = ...

My computer has one on its mouse. Stops the mouse getting lost when the computer wipes out.

Wow! Shows how out of touch I am (or was!).

Thanks for the correction.

There have recently been suggestions that latent herpes viruses might also be a factor in some forms of dementia. I can't remember the details offhand but I think the virus sticks around nerves and the immune system forms proteins to protect the nerves, and those proteins can accumulate in plaques, ...

:rotflmao: Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID :snippity: Johnson has (I think) largely dropped out of current news so he will be happy to get the publicity. He doesn't feel the shame or embarrassment that a non-sociopathic person would in that ironic s...

Rolodex wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 11:43 pm It's narthex. And pews.

Genuine question, what is not pews? (So to speak.)

Benches? Seats? I never attended lectures in hermeneutic eschatology so some major issues escape me.

bob wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 1:03 am
Like fiddles.

… with one string, playing one long note, always flat, to a dying audience.

So sad.

I was thinking "I don't remember what this case claims to be about." On the basis that others might be thinking the same, here's a extracts from a reality-based Salt Lake Tribune piece quoted in an earlier post by Luke : The suit, which leans on baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 electio...

zekeb wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 10:49 pm Narthex vs entrance.

Vomitory versus egress versus exit versus way out.

I'm not sure I understand this game.