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The White Buffalo draws our attention to this debate: Wars are still waged, crimes committed, and science undone out of deference to an invisible being who is believed to have created the entire cosmos, fine-tuned the constants of nature, blanketed the earth with 20,000 distinct species of grasshopper, and yet still remains so provincial a […]

Further to the non-citizen soldier discussion: The Roman army was still the most ruthlessly proficient in the world, and it had to be: frontiers needed guarding. To finance it, a vastly increased bureaucracy was in place. The provinces – stretching from Hadrian’s Wall to Iraq, from the Rhine to the Atlas Mountains – were now […]

Another ridiculously hot day, another day at the pool…. Having gotten a handle on the 3-meter board, I decided it was time to figure out what I was doing wrong on the one-meter board and why I was always hitting the water on my butt. Upon consultation with the kid who has been zen master […]

That’s the problem. If this book didn’t exist, I’d have to straw-invent it: There is a book making the rounds in America. It’s called “Why Men Marry Bitches”, by Sherry Argov. I work at the library and we bought quite a few copies in both English and Spanish, and it is being reserved by a […]

I mean, we all know the British government issues licenses to kill: No police officers will face criminal charges over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday. He was shot dead at Stockwell Underground station, south London, last July by anti-terrorist officers who mistakenly feared that he was a […]

that I killed your baby…. Unsurprisingly, the High Priestess of Cthulhu’s Coven is primarily worried about the woman’s mental health. Screw the kid. Screw the guy who would otherwise have been expected to provide for, protect and love that child. Because it’s all about what women want right now… in nine years, that same woman […]

What sort of Hallmark card do you buy this guy: I’m not settling for one of those half-assed Father’s Days my dad always had, when he got socks and a card and ended up washing the dishes anyway. I’m not playing that shit. In fact, I submitted this itinerary to Mrs. Drew and have instructed […]

The Episcopalians continue their hell-bent slide towards organizational suicide: A woman was last night elected as the first female leader of the American branch of Anglicanism in a historic but divisive development that could hasten the break-up of the worldwide Church. The Bishop of Nevada, the Rt Rev Katharine Jefferts Schori, who is a leading […]

The Telegraph: Unmarried couples could win the right to a share of each other’s wealth in the event of a break-up under plans being published today. The Law Commission will publish a consultation document setting out possible improvements in the rights of the two million Britons who live with a partner. A key proposal is […]

HB actually bothers to read before writing: I think you may have mischaracterised some of the complaints that have been made about you. The real problem is, that if you advocate using Nazi methods, then people will make certain assumptions about you, namely that you are a Nazi. I’ve taken the trouble to actually read […]