Shewmaker

I agree with your assessment of this law. The problem with laws which are motivated by major political movements is that many (if not most) of them are "hastily put together and not rationally thought through" And that applies regardless if the …

I have to apologize because I did not focus on background development. Which is ironic because I have a tendency offline to ramble on and on about background before I get to my main point. Anyway, much of my youth was spent in the freelance realm. …

I was not talking about the current situation in Hollywood. I was talking about the conditions which led to the formation of the Screen Actors Guild.

I respectfully disagree. SAG sprang out of a contract system in which a studio owned an actor's contract and the actor could not appear in any production of another studio except if the other studio paid a fee, not to the actor, but to the studio …

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/17/why-freelancers-fear-a-biden-presidency-may-put-them-out-of-work.html —

Not everyone in America was happy when those men were appointed. Many people felt the same way that you do. Incidentally, one of those 3, Warren, was appointed by a Republican President, the other two by Democratic Presidents.

There have been several justices in my lifetime who had (as far as I know) no judicial experience before they were appointed to the Supreme Court. Abe Fortas, Arthur Goldberg, and Earl Warren are three examples. Now it may be that I am wrong and …

A cow and a pig are both mammals but not everything that is true for one is true for the other as an example pigs do not chew their cud. The fact that other viruses are corona shaped does not mean that they are the same virus. Your statement that …

Chris, The Vice-President is required but Congress can remove the cabinet from the process by creating a "body" for that purpose.

Jesus said "For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you." I do not believe that two wrongs make a right. The evidence determined which gun fired the bullet which killed …

Have you seen the 2015 movie Mr. Holmes with Ian McKellen? Wasps play a role in the movie. I won't say more about wasps in case you have not seen it but in the movie the detective is old and is having problems with his memory.

This is a re-share of an article from the Flickr blog. https://blog.flickr.net/en/2020/09/09/the-library-of-congress-seeks-photos-of-covid-19-experiences-in-the-us/

If you have problems reading this article and your browser lets you edit the style sheets, you may want to delete the font face from the style sheet. It chooses a "light" meaning thin font which is not easy to …

"I" is used most often in the place of a subject noun. When "we" could be used then the singular pronoun is "I". When "us" could be used then the singular pronoun is "me". It would not be appropriate to write "interviewed we" but it would be …

He probably should have written "interviewed Justice Scalia and me". Since the people being interviewed are the object of the verb, "me" is the singular pronoun.

If one believes that religion is a figment of man's imagination then all are wrong because there would then be no God. But if Deity exists, then reality is not determined by what the various religions believe is right or wrong anymore than the …

Chris, I have a lot of respect for your attitude on this subject. But one thing that many people who have a problem with religion don't understand is something that every mathemetician accepts in arithemetic. In arithemetic, if we are speaking in …

If you had limited yourself to saying that you found the article difficult to believe, that would have been no problem. If you had added that in the past Dawkins has not held that view that would also have been no problem. If you had stated that …

Nobody denies that Dawkins has in the past been quite vocal in his opinion that religion does more harm than good. In fact, that point was made in the article in the Times of London. The Times is NOT a religious newspaper. But you are claiming …

It has been ten months since the Times of London published that article. If the writer of that article misrepresented Richard Dawkins I would expect that Mr. Dawkins would have published a refutation of that article since he has had ten months in …

Chris, I think that this was a "finished" conversation until @cvdavis added several comments today. He suggested in his comments that the original post was based on a biased religious article. Since I was the original poster and since I thought …

Why do you say that the Times of London article is religious? I got the impression that it was not only not religious but that Dawkins was not suggesting that the beliefs of religious people are correct. Dawkins was only saying that many people …

Well, I don't think that you would consider it to be an improvement if the Republicans won a veto-proof majority in both houses of Congress in the next election.

I am not a gun owner. I am relatively neutral on this issue. You used the word "partisanship" in your last sentence but I'm not sure that your use is impartial. Before the Civil War, although the southern states opposed the right of the northern …

I was not aware that such a product was offered and I could use one because my residence is in a bad reception spot. If you find your answer to this question outside of Cake, please post what you find out on Cake. Your absence, btw, is felt …