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I felt the soul-crushing pressure of being alone during the time just after my mother entered the nursing home as part of her downward descent to the dark depths of dementia. My father had passed away a couple of years earlier and he was HER support system. Then it fell to me and I had no...

For me it is a sense of fairness. I prefer the "equality" path. Where feminism seeks equality and empowerment of the disenfranchised, downtrodden, or hopeless women trapped in bad situations, I'm in favor of it. Which is why I have never at any time employed a "woman of the night" or whatever...

I like every season in which I am still living. However, in New Orleans I really like our winters because they are frequently just brisk days where all you need is a light sweater or perhaps a fleece exercise jacket. Yesterday, for example, was a bright, clear, blue-sky day with less than 5%...

I have stopped buying the economy box of snacks that I think must be equivalent to what you call "crisps." Used to go to Sam's and buy the 42-pack of, essentially, a variant on a party mix of mini-pretzels, crisp-toasted pumpernickel, and a few other items. But they are addictive and not good...

A republic, done correctly, is a layered democracy. You elect your representatives and they represent you in a smaller forum where you won't 10,000 voices drowning you out during discussion. Though I HAVE seen telecasts of Parliament in session from our BBC network channel here in the USA and...

I think Apple lost sight of the privacy issue in all the shuffle and their product, which is notorious for information-sharing, doesn't give enough control to its owners to stop the outflow. (Didn't say NO control... just not enough.) Also, I understand from what little I have read on the net...

I've seen a list that says now it is seven criteria, though I might disagree with some of them. respond to their environment (which matches my "respond to external stimuli") grow and change (which was not in the original list and I think is inappropriate, but there it is) reproduce and have...

The basic criteria are ingest, excrete, reproduce, and respond to external stimuli. If this life-form does all four, we have a winner.

Don't forget that as you diet, you must exercise. This forces your muscle mass to improve at the expense of your fat. But muscle weighs more and it is possible to do good for yourself without losing a LOT of weight. (OK, need to lose some...) Just looking at the scales is the wrong answer...

Some of us have natural talents; others of us merely develop what we had normally. For instance, I used to be a crastinator. Then in my later life I lost my amateur status.

I would say that "evolved" is sufficient in context. But I would hope that Bee has a viewpoint here as well.

Ah, but this gives me the chance to pull out one of those infamous Star Trek quotes: From the TV episode, "A Taste of Armageddon" - Kirk addresses Anon 7 who has just called him a barbarian, to which Kirk READILY agrees. But he then says (paraphrasing) that one difference between "civilized"...

"I think, therefore I am" said nothing about "rational." Don't think it's a requirement.

In my case, because I had done some reasonably good financial planning, retirement was more good than bad. The good? Stress levels declined. Expenses were reduced. The bad? There is a trap to fall into sedentary behavior patterns and that can be bad, but since I was a desk jockey for my...

At least a couple of those are not genetically modifiable in the normal sense. I have offered other explanations of gender dysphoria (identifying as the gender opposite from the visible secondary sex characteristics.) That is at least partly a condition of birth, or at least is likely to be...

My take is that Vegans can eat what they want in a technological society because we can make supplements for the kinds of things vegetables don't give us. We can have our blood chemistry monitored. We can genetically modify certain food sources to be more nutritious or less harmful. But that...

In a sense, Bee, promotion IS about salary. You don't see it the way I do. Perhaps think about being a Network Engineer 3 and getting the base rate for that position. But after a year of good, hard work with excellent productivity, you get promoted to N.E. 3.1 (the next pay band). That's not...

In the USA, the broad range for federal public service is defined for GS-1 through GS-12 or -13 (I forget how high they go) and GM-9 through 16. But the bands within range are less public, and even the bands have a non-zero range to them. However, NO. The problem would not go away with time...

I am truly sorry, Bee, but you just triggered a knee-jerk reaction in me. You may find my argument unconscionable but the truth is that what you seek (at that level) may also be unavoidable unless you want to have government in your pants pocket 24 hours a day. To which my answer is not only...

That's just it. Bee's point (and I agree with her in at least some degree) is that the wage gap isn't technically illegal. It is immoral. Where there is hard evidence of unfair labor practices, an action brought before the NLRB will usually clear up matters pretty quickly. The catch has...