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[Keith Wilson]

Happy birthday!

[Keith Wilson]

One time I agree with AlanMc. 'Solving greed' in human beings is about as futile an enterprise as I can imagine. And there are no panaceas - although...

[Keith Wilson]

Like just about anyone else. I'd want to find the guy and kill him slowly and creatively by highly unpleasant methods. Wouldn't you? Human beings are...

[Keith Wilson]

My point was that 'California' is larger, more populous, and more varied than most countries. And almost all of Chicago resembles the worst slums of...

[Keith Wilson]

If by that you mean 'for fear of crime' you just made it clear you know almost nothing about California or Chicago. (I haven't spent enough time in...

[Keith Wilson]

This is 100% dead wrong. It was Russia's decision to invade and attempt to conquer a neighboring country that was the 'real cause of the war'. That decision...

[Keith Wilson]

False dichotomy. Teaching people to think is certainly a good idea, but we spend much more money on far sillier things. Basic research in physics costs...

[Keith Wilson]

I probably don't fall in that category, but it sure looks like the guy's a total slimeball. He should definitely resign and let Governor Murphy appoint...

[Keith Wilson]

If you were in charge of hiring folks at Home Depot, would you hire the guy?...

[Keith Wilson]

Short memory? Not a scholar of history, at least. ...

[Keith Wilson]

You know, it's pretty damned amazing how the Germans and Japanese have behaved for near 80 years now, compared to before the war. I tend to not notice...

[Keith Wilson]

Oh, I'm certainly not betting on the Russians making the kind of change the Germans and Japanese made after WWII, however desirable it might be. It's...

[Keith Wilson]

You could have said that about Germany in 1950. 'The inherently warlike and aggressive German national character' and all that, for which there was a...

[Keith Wilson]

"The incident took place in March 2021 in Houston, Texas."

[Keith Wilson]

The US hasn't has legal segregation for close to 60 years, yet cultural segregation by ancestry, skin color, culture, and social class (which correlate...

[Keith Wilson]

I think you can leave out the 'practically'. That's a very interesting linguistic point. I think in English the strong negative connotation of mis- (as...

[Keith Wilson]

Now that's interesting. I rather like it, in fact - taking a word that was intended to be negative ('mis-' as a prefix in English is pretty much always...

[Keith Wilson]

Oh, I have no doubt the Russians were nervous about NATO expansion, whatever anyone says. But again, only the Russians could have prevented the war.

[Keith Wilson]

No war is inevitable. It could have been prevented - but not the way you think. If Mr Putin had no dreams of reconstituting the Soviet Union or the Russian...

[Keith Wilson]

When someone argues for helping the Ukraine to defend themselves against a Russian invasion (which is every bit as justified as Germany's invasion of...