by Ai Friendly | Jan 28, 2020 | Witty Repartee on any topic
If the election were being held now instead of November, who would you vote for? It’s an impossible choice with no good answer, but I will tell you something of my preferences. But first: Our elections have devolved into popularity contests. It’s not a good way...
by Ai Friendly | Jan 15, 2020 | Witty Repartee on any topic
by David Howard Beginning in the 1700s in Europe, we began to see the forming of a strange and seemingly self-contradictory alliance of intellectuals and artists and writers that made up a large part of what we now call the Enlightenment. Broadly speaking,...
by Ai Friendly | Dec 8, 2019 | Witty Repartee on any topic
America was born before the Revolutionary war. It was born when thoughtful people here started reading political philosophers and theorists of the early 1700’s like John Locke. At our very inception it was clear that we would stand for two things: Free...
by Ai Friendly | Dec 5, 2019 | Witty Repartee on any topic
A chess player who uses the screen name Timbeau wrote “There is only one political party in the US and it has two wings: One is called Democrat and the other Republican. The fundamental differences are non-existent. Both have a long history of managing the...
by Ai Friendly | Dec 2, 2019 | Witty Repartee on any topic
WinLoseorDraw received an internet snippet from his brother-in-law. It was a snapshot entitled “Did you Know?” It said that senators and representatives were originally paid only a per diem. The article went on to speculate that the Founding Fathers wanted...
by Ai Friendly | Nov 21, 2019 | Witty Repartee on any topic
In the years prior to the 2016 Presidential election, then President Obama took a lot of verbal abuse. WinLoseorDraw heard a lot of anti-Obama rhetoric on the softball fields while playing softball with other old guys. These guys castigated former President Obama’s...
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