Most of the United States was bought, not conquered: For example, the Louisiana purchase, much of the southwest after the Mexican-American War*, Florida, the Gadsden purchase, and Alaska. (If you wan… (View Post)

Are potatoes legitimate in a vegetable garden? Sure. Although you want to trim any green patches that develop on them, as those patches are midlly poisonous. (Ordinarily the patches don't develop, as… (View Post)

Like me, you may find this lawsuit entertaining: "New York inmates are suing the state over its plan to lockdown prisons during next week’s solar eclipse, alleging that in barring them from view… (View Post)

FPT: For Topping (and others), the findings in this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_Next_Door "Most of the millionaire households that they profiled did not have the extravag… (View Post)

Here's a problem that deserves more attention than it is receiving: "In Sudan’s post-apocalyptic cities, in the desert battlegrounds of Darfur and even in the war-ravaged farmlands of the south,… (View Post)