I have to wonder how they persuaded homophobic men to sign up to such a study.

Velcro sewn to just inside the top of your pocket, so sticking a hand in your pocket makes a loud noise and you can feel it, for any pickpocket to separate the velcro.

Isn't that more of the same crime the trial was about?

David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel

What kind of children's pastor brags about "staring down" her charges, or calls them tyrants?

One of my favourite philosophers. He visited my Uni and had a great anecdote about a quote from his book: "maybe we are all zombies (it would be the height of intellectual dishonesty to quote this out of context)", where he visited another Uni, and all the students had organised to wear t-shirts emblazoned with "Maybe we are all zombies - Daniel Dennett".

I actually think the comment could be interpreted as Trump shit on the desk before leaving either to spite Biden (instead of leaving the traditional letter), or his declining mind allowed him to let slip an accident he himself had personally, and that "'disgusting Biden' is still using it, what a weirdo, I wouldn't use it after I soiled it".

In the 1960s, George Romney, Mitt’s father, regularly turned down his bonuses from his auto executive job, perhaps in part because his marginal tax rate would have been about 90 percent

If this is true he's a fucking idiot. 10% of $x is better than $0. More likely the reason was that the bonuses pushed him over some threshold so he lost some other benefit, making it a net loss, or he negotiated some alternative compensation mechanism that had reduced or deferrable tax liability.

You don't need any appraisal. You only need to know the purchase price and the selling price. The difference between them is the gain or loss.

There is no canon in the TCU.

I know this kind of requires some cunning, but maybe he's playing at developing dementia in order to get out of any upcoming sentences, as a backup plan in case he doesn't manage to win or steal the presidency.

Too close to the election. Republicans will just block a Biden nomination until after the election, in the hopes of another Trump nominee.

In the UK, 'trump' means fart.

Did they block her from the caucus, or did she choose not to enter the caucus? If the former, how, and if the latter, why?

But why isn't Nikki Haley running in the caucus?

It's crappy lawyers all the way down.

USA was the first democracy in the world

Uh, no it wasn't.

I've seen reusable metal aeropress filters on amazon with reviews complaining they let through too much grit, so perhaps one of them would work better than the paper filters.

What's up with the giant standing on the minaret in the second picture?

He means "the real fraud is on me" in the same sense the Milky Bar Kid says "the Milky Bars are on me!"