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Living life in a consistently structured way. Well, there are all kinds of brains out there, made for different things. I'm more the pie...

Particularly on rivers. The white settlers of North America did their best to name things in their own languages, we still have the...

IMHO, some artists do feel that their work stems from a mystic source that they can't identify with an external impetus. When Samuel...

Every time someone brings up the mysticism of creativity, the loneliness of the long distance writer, pursuing the muse, suffering for...

That is a good representation of the difference between craft and art. Craft is about the process and art is about the result. There...

"Success has many parents, and even more lawyers." --Chuck Lorre, in a vanity card from The Big Bang Theory.

From what I've read about Australian history, it's every bit as fascinating. And while slavery never seemed to be much of an issue, both...

This. Part of LBJ's problem was the aura of Texas ranch after JFK's New England high society polish. He enacted legislation for the...

Sure, why not? Yes, arroyo is from the Spanish, when all the American Southwest was New Spain. Arroyos are particularly treacherous...

vertiginous very high and steep of, relating to, or having vertigo

Did it include the one about the remark Norris made when somebody suggested reviving "Walker, Texas Ranger" after twenty years? He...

turnt which popped up in today's crossword puzzle. It means " extremely excited, wild, or drunk." And on looking it up, I find that...

You probably know it from the hospital, which has an international reputation. They actually made a movie of his experience in the...

Like those folks who own Hobby Lobby who paid umpteen million for forged biblical artifacts. A friend of mine is a biblical historian...

Which is why the most powerful music there is was written for organ. It goes straight to the body itself. If you've ever heard E. Power...