Recent content by Politesse

You make an excellent point. I wonder why this thread popped up in my "new posts" queue, and why I didn't notice my error until it was too late? Well, I know the latter. Program review is due Tuesday.

Who are these weird theoretical people who criticize Israeli colonizing, but think the Sykes-Picot based states and their gradual Arabization were a feckin great idea? I don't think many people see the creation of "Arab states" as any more a positive historical development than the creation of...

That's great and all, but I still am wary of a politician without any relevant specialized knowledge making key decisions about the law, economic policy, foreign policy, and the censorship of knowledge itself. Neither am I saying that all politicians should study law per se. But they should...

What do Progressives have to do with it? ... They do not appoint the Speaker of the House... and if they did, a fucking corporate lawyer who hates Progressivism is not who they would pick...

No, I couldn't agree more. He was very, very wrong, after he was briefed.

Just so. Well, if you think you can slay an antelope with an Acheulean hand axe, I'd love to watch your attempt. But I was the one who brought up hunting. There are other ways to acquire meat. It is likely, if not certain, that we were using tools like the classic hand axe to process scavenged...

This is sort of true, though for those ancestors, meat would have been a rarity, not a part of the everyday diet. Hunting technology and fire technology developed together. You see some of our primate cousins hunt small game, but usually only in extremis of hunger. It was likely the same, if not...

For most of human history, massed warfare didn't even exist.

Always, always, remember to bring a towel.

Maybe I should start a thread on naturism.

You prefer laws penned by the unlettered, in short. I note that the man you are paraphrasing the political principles of, Abraham Lincoln, was a working lawyer by all accounts, and a damned good one. He himself was paraphrasing another excellent orator, Theodore Parker, who studied law at...

One of my favorite politicians right now, I'm glad she won her race.

Oh, I know it. He was the one of the most important bandaids that kept the late stage Biden machine together also. I suspect his work will continue to go unsung, though.

It's just a question, jeez.

Correct. He is likely betting that there won't be much political will to remove the designation, which is true, but the executive order need not be fully reversed in order to contravene the clause about not changing the decorating. It is, as always, executive overreach over the pettiest of...