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I'm not sure I really care what either of them have to say.

CatHolic ConfesHional?

Even if there is preschool involved you'd be talking a daily commitment where, whatever happened, you'd need to be home in time to get the kid off the bus, you may need to be there in time to put the kid on the bus, you might need to put your plans on hold at a moment's notice if your daughter...

Bingo!

Watching the kids for a while is very different to agreeing to watch them all day, every day, indefinitely, for free. Hey, maybe grandma can also pay the mortgage and bills while she's at it. It's really no different to anything else that might be done occasionally or regularly. If I'm going to...

Being a bit more serious than my previous comment, I think another key attribute is an appeal to a voter demographic that the presidential candidate may lack. I remember at least some of the response when John McCain appointed Sarah Palin as his VP candidate - the party faithful cheered but...

Maybe. I've never felt the need to particularly speak out against entire groups of people. I know some Muslims are terrorists and some are not, the ones I've known have been good people. I'm sure some Jews are bad people, but the ones I've known have been good people. You can find good and bad...

Never heard them called Jimmies before.

A constant problem with just about any system is determining a fail state, i.e. what the system does if some aspect of it fails. Whatever the system does in a fail state creates potential issues, and it's a question of determining which situations are desirable and whether the potential...

There's no reason why you shouldn't travel by train between places a great distance apart, it just needs to offer a benefit when compared to flying or driving. If you've got the option between spending two hours in an airport waiting for the TSA agent to poke and prod at everything in sight...

I've heard mixed things about living in Russia (based on talking to Russian people, albeit a small sample of Russian people). Some aspects of life there sound pretty good, others less so. Some talk is about people being afraid to speak against leadership, which doesn't seem like a good place to...

It might be easier to mention a drive-thru I do use, albeit incredibly rarely. I have been known to use a drive-thru ATM. I think that's the only drive-thru I've used at any time since long before the wu-flu.

Europe is also pretty big. The only way I can see high speed trains making any sense is to connect very specific population centers. The eternal trouble with public transport is that it doesn't take me from where I am to where I want to be, it either runs between very specific points (meaning I...

That's easy. You blather a lot about racial and gender equality and then insist the VP must be a black woman because, well, reasons I guess. It would be kinda fun if Trump nominated a black lesbian, or a black transgender woman, even if only to see the woke brigade's heads explode as they...

I don't care much for drive thru at all. But then they are most closely associated with fast food and I hardly ever eat fast food.

There are bears in the mountains where I hike. I haven't seen one in years but friends with trail cams periodically report sightings of them. Sometimes I see bear scat on the trails.

I like fantasy, on the basis it's in a fictional world and makes no pretense to represent anything real. The land doesn't exist, the people don't exist, whatever magic holds it all together doesn't exist and the monsters don't exist. Usually I read fantasy as little more than brain candy so as...

I know this is a very specific situation but I know a couple where she didn't take his last name when they married. The reason was simple - she had earned a PhD in her maiden name and if she took a new name she would cease to be "Dr ..." I'd hope things would have changed since then, but it...

"I'd just like to see a few more campaign ads and then I'll be ready to decide how to vote" - nobody, ever.

I had conjunctivitis years ago. The pharmacist gave me a cream for it that I had to apply multiple times a day. It was a real pain - I had to wash my hands, apply to one eye, wash hands again, apply to the other eye, wash hands again. But it seemed to work. I have no idea what it was, it was...