greginnj

Remember this oldie?

"Wouldn't it be great if the schools had all the money they needed, and the Defense Department had to hold a Bake Sale to buy a bomber?"

Could you compare and contrast how the Gypsies/Roma were treated (both by the government, and by regular citizens) before and after communism fell?

a warrior's drink!

You'd better believe that the slot machine designers hire actual psychologists to set up the payoffs to produce exactly that effect. Like rats pulling levers - they know exactly how much sugar water to put out to keep the rat pulling the lever forever - while minimizing outlay of sugar water.

One of the biggest secrets of the US military services seems to be the extent to which they have been leaders rather than followers of society at large on all sorts of civil rights issues. Somehow 'identifying with the military' is thought of as a right-wing trait, but when it comes to civil rights - they're progressive!