I have thinked a few thoughts about the Constitution. ( Let me show you them. )

The confusing thing for Native American ethnohistorians, is why did almost no North American peoples either develop or adopt written language? ( Teal deer wherein I wax rhapsodic in my complaint that 'real' historians have to rely on archaeologists and ethnographers instead of One of Us. )

History does not quit because of events, nor even cataclysm. The World Wars; the US Civil War; the British Civil Wars; the Hundred Years' and Eighty Years' Wars. The fall of Rome. The rise of Rome and the destruction of the old Greek and Egyptian and Persian Empires. The violent conquest of the Toltec and Mayan Empires by the Aztecs. ( Read more... )

Note that I actually pronounce it ( correctly in person. )

This is about six years' worth of officer-involved fatalities in a single incident.

Two motives seem likely at this point: personal/family vendetta (seems more likely to me) or domestic terrorism (always a possibility, given the level of ultra-right and ultra-left activity in southwest Washington.)

Crazy times.

Politically-involved, politically-aware voters are what makes this country a republic. This young woman and the other serfs like her, who insist on Gov Palin's warped, plastic (in both senses) solipsism rather than inconvenient reality, could swiftly remake this country into a failed state were they ever to attain (or delude, or coerce) a majority ( Read more... )

And anyone who hasn't read The World is Flat yet, probably should. Maybe this interview will persuade at least one of you that he has some interesting thoughts and insights into the coming fairness of competition in the second half of this century ( Read more... )

Using the site, not as the location, but as the medium of warfare.

Good commentary on MOUT from a guy who has been there, both with a rifle in his mitts and with a pencil and keyboard in front of him, reporting and analyzing.

Now they have decided that Jesus, that dirty fucking Socialist hippie, needs a rewrite.

There is no joke I could possibly contrive, that would make that funnier than it already is.

Now they're coming for your children.