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Or do anything else, either... I listened to Call President Carter Day; the man was gormless.

Both sides say *their* scandals are really nothing. But Trump is, as you pointed out, *not* a politician... a great point in his favor, IMHO. Businessmen who don't please and who don't meet payrolls, don't last long. He must be doing something right... Since the business of America *is*...

But Hillary practically has a patent on scandals, and her pay-to-play scandal is as large or larger. Trump is racist, in the sense of "any person disagreeing with a Democrat"; I'll accept that over Hillary's brand of it- "having race on the brain".

For all his flaws... at least he's not Hillary. How did it come about that in every election, we have to pick between Deplorables and Despisables? Why, in my adult life, has my Democratic party, never once run anyone for President who is fit to even be dogcatcher? It began, for me, with Jimmy...

Oh, well... Seems we're only needing maybe five or 10 to finish our collection, so won't be getting these. Whoever does get them, I'll invite to our group so they can enjoy thousands of pulps!

Mr. Steinberg, I am part of a Yahoo group that collects, scans, and archives pulps- so if they head our way, more good will come of it than it going to any single collector. I'll post and see if there is interest in these...

Clearly, no one read past the first few words of my last post. There are just as many jobs as ever- but they are waiting for the next rich person to drag them into existence, same as every job that currently exists. The reasons that so many jobs are going overseas are well known- correct the...

Where did I say it would be "accepted"? What makes it a "pretend" uniform? It doesn't have to be clothing; for all I care they could wear an arm band or for that matter clown noses- as long as they remain distinguishable from *non* resistance, at all times, so the government can tell "who needs...

In other words, they live in the real world, and deal with it in real-life terms. Hardly much of an indictment. What so many seem to misunderstand is simple- they think the economy is a zero-sum game, and that if a rich man has a lot of money, it means the poor have less. In fact, they keep...

You folks keep saying that violence *against* civilians is bad- what I am not hearing is "violence *from* civilians is bad, especially if it involves cowardly attacks on random innocent bystanders". If civilians want to take violence in their hands, they can form an army, provide themselves with...

If you want to fight a government, put on a uniform, use legitimate weapons of war, and stay away from civilians- don't target them, and don't make it necessary to endanger them to get at *you*. One is war; the other, terrorism. And murdering people for having the same skin color as people you...

So you do think the existence of crime means the existence of even more crime is justified? That police officers are incapable of breaking laws, and so their crimes aren't crimes, and should be counted as official acts? That white-on-black institutionalized racism is wrong, but that the reverse...

Yes, I suspect that by Mandela's time, a great many white people had been born and raised in Africa, and were therefore just as native. The reference you made to random shootings by hoodlums seems irrelevant to a political discussion- do you think the existence of crime means the existence of...

If you don't like the rich, ask a poor man for a job.

So you see no difference in armies fighting armies and terrorists hiding car bombs, etc.? The French Resistance fought off invading foreigners, the Underground Railway smuggled victims- they didn't bomb public places! To my mind, the difference between a Resistance and a terrorist group is easy...

I wish I could respect him more, but let's face it- he was a terrorist who made good. Making nice doesn't unbomb your victims. They need to be remembered, too.

The local station showed a handful of episodes back in the Eighties. All I recall is an extraordinarily "cheap" looking effect- a woman in cavewoman fetishwear was floating up or down in a sort of chamberless elevator. I seriously doubt even a diehard fan could ID the episode from that, though...

Minor, and things promising immediate profit, do get crowdfunded. For everything greater than an improved fishstick, you'd better *hope* NASA or DARPA is working on it... or some such agency. No one was going to stand around in front of grocery stores and rattle cans so there could be TV cameras...

But STEM major developments typically require funding beyond what church groups and such small fry can get together (crowdfunding before the Internet was minuscule). The computer manufacturers were perfectly content selling huge mainframes to a few dozen huge companies- NASA had to pressure them...

If not for the tech spinoff, I might agree with you. Including, for example, the computer you are using to read this... A dollar spent on NASA has a return of what, 700%? What other program, government or civilian, does that well? I won't get into a "What have the Romans ever done for us?!"...