There’s a tale of a soldier who carried a New Testament in his breast pocket and it stopped a bullet in battle. Maybe in the early 1800s, but since mid 1800s not even with the metal front cover supposedly issued. That’s probably where they got the idea.

I agree. I hate to see any book destroyed or even damaged.

That’s what inevitably happens when you turn to centralized government. Their laws are crafted to be more and more convenient for themselves and increasingly useful for limiting everybody.

Why would anyone any more even CARE what shape the Earth is? Aren’t there more pressing issues?

Her victim being black probably is a factor here but the reality is that women seldom get any real punishment whatever they do, up to and including murder. Likely when they do the victim and/or victim’s family is extremely rich or else it’s a lawyer ingroup matter — her lawyers owes the judge a favor, dope, money,…

You could find out if the accused really did commit a crime.

Well, make up your minds about it.

“Pablos lost her legal permanent resident status two years ago after a substance use-related arrest.”

Men don’t have much time to celebrate. We have to constantly work our behinds off so women can sit around on theirs screaming about how oppressed they are.

I suppose they don’t execute anyone over there. He’ll probably do 5 or 10 years and then be turned loose to continue his life (and maybe his crimes) while she remains dead. It won’t make a dent in people like him.

They may hire on the basis of how clearly applicants speak, how generally educated they are, and how pleasant and confident an image they project rather than on the anachronistic system of judging them by race.

I haven’t seen “The Shape Of Water” but everything I’ve read and seen online makes it look like a remake of “The Creature From the Black Lagoon” with a different emphasis.

Is there a difference between it being “your year” and your being marketable? And does it matter?

It’s astonishing to me that scientists don’t know that dogs have self-awareness and a sense of identity. Every ordinary person who’s had pets knows this and finds themselves automatically behaving as though it were true.

Human vision is programmed for shape, color, and texture; dogs’ is for movement and since their color vision is limited requires less light than ours.

About 1970 I read a midcentury book called “The Next 500 Years”. According to the author nearly everybody in the world would be living in suburbs and commuting to work just like many on the US east coast and a couple of other places. Also everyone would speak English; other languages would be limited to university…

A remake of the 1950s movie “The Creature From The Black Lagoon”.

You mean an exorcism?

Should there be a couple of FBI agents present at all medical exams and treatments?

Is shit going to be the next great obsession, replacing even climate change and racism?