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Not to mention that [sic] is usually used in a quoting context, not a discussion context. While I am sure other usages exist, the most common case is when quoting someone who misused a word or phrase, in which case the reporter quotes the person verbatim and includes the bracketed [sic] to...

Among other things, rough on your digestive system and an absolute beast for your sleep cycle.

I see many levels to this question. From raw chromosome evaluation, two. BUT... if you do a web search of this phrase: homosexual + brain scan - you would find UK research from the 1990s using positron emission tomography (P.E.T. scans that can map the living brain). They discovered that...

As to the question of "lays or lies" ... my farm-girl of a mother told me "we just pick up the chicken to see which of those was true." As to the question of nature vs. nurture for mental health? I don't think this is one that has a good answer because everyone is different (leaning to...

It is my belief that the selection of a deity depends on to whom you were born, not where or when. I was born to a Christian family (mixed Protestant) so I followed my mother's religion and became a Methodist. As to WHY I am no longer a believer, that can be answered in another thread. But as...

We have to put a great big caveat in this one. Let's isolate trial vs. punishment by saying there is no doubt that the person in question is guilty due to incredibly potent scientific, photographic, and forensic evidence, and further let's say that the person confessed under circumstances such...

Evil is doing unnecessary harm to another who has not harmed you. The inverse of the Golden Rule.

Can't answer without testing for electrical activity. BUT very extremely seriously doubt that you are alive if at the moment you are a people-sicle. Reminds me of the old COBOL programmer who, after years of working for various companies, accumulated enough money to retire as a wealthy man...

Sounds vaguely workaholic to me. While there is always one more thing to type, sometimes it helps to learn that you are a worthy person even when you don't happen to be typing on some project or another at the moment.

Ah, the Hitler issue. To Hitler I would be chivalrous (using Robert A Heinlein's definition of chivalry.) You DO know that, don't you? It comes from Heinlein's Glory Road. (Trust me - no relation to the recent Mad Max movie.) "Chivalrous" means that you sing your opponent's praises while...

Bee, your point is well taken that when P.C. is called because someone is discourteous, a wrong thing has been done. My objection to P.C. call-outs (or would that be calls-out?) is when the call-out is used in response to a factual statement for the purpose of stifling debate. And THAT is not...

I think I have to disagree with the "old wive's tale" part, at least as a minor quibble if not as a major get-down-and-get-dirty argument. It is an old Latin phrase, something like corpore sano, mens sano so it certainly has a history. And one can argue that without a healthy body, your mind...

An interesting point, AI. The "verified progeny" seems important if you watch the Maury Povich show, if only because "sweet young things" are always claiming paternity for their kids and therefore child support. But a lot of the time it turns out that the claimed father just ain't the one...

I never tried to analyze it once I got into college because most of the bullies didn't go there. In college, I was old enough to fit in better. I guess I had matured a bit more. Though true mental maturity didn't come until my dad died and I had to take responsibility for my mom. When...

I certainly WAS different to others because I was a social outcast growing up in virtual isolation. Always the last person picked for a game during Phys-Ed class. Always shunned. Often bullied. I KNEW that I "saw" things faster than anyone else in class. I was the only person in my entire...

"Why should humans feel they have a monopoly on thinking? " Why, indeed? Many among Mankind are quite possessive about certain abilities as being exclusive to humanity. Take a dip in the religion pool and bring up evolution. You'll catch a LOT of that sort of possessiveness. But I am...

Thank you, Jon. That's a politer way than some others have expressed it, that sometimes my thoughts go sideways. I was never any good at coloring between the lines.

As a kid I had an IQ test and they wanted me to skip straight to 3rd grade, bypassing 1st and 2nd. Mom balked and let me skip 1st. She said (and in retrospect I agree with her decision) that I would be unprepared socially for jumping into 3rd grade. I would have been bullied even more than I...

By that standard, my grandson approaches pet status every time he starts playing computer games. Absolutely NO sense of time passage. To the point of not eating sometimes. I love him dearly but he needs to rebalance his time management a bit and I don't know how to do that without getting unkind.

Bee, according to my Gastro guy, vitamins are OK with a couple of caveats. First, it is DEFINITELY possible to overdose on vitamins, and your kidneys have to get rid of the excess "stuff" that your body couldn't use. Therefore, only take vitamins up to the recommended daily allowance level...