Monthly Archives: July 2020

I couldn’t resist answering this: If you’re from a country that was colonized in the past, how do your people feel about the countries who once were rulers? How do the Vietnamese feel about French, Brazil about Portugal, etc.?  In … Continue reading →

A recent Aeon Essay asks If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave? but do anthropologists really fixate on deciding which kind of communication came first while ignoring the obviously most likely alternative? Surely the utility of … Continue reading →

Seriously! Is this really a contest about which party can nominate the most fucking stupid idiot for the leadership of the most powerful military machine on the planet? Biden Claims Trump Is The First Racist President | HuffPost Canada .  … Continue reading →

No comment needed Source: Man, 30, Dies After Attending a ‘Covid Party,’ Texas Hospital Says – The New York Times

Source: Navigating Race-Based Data: Intersections of Health through COVID-19 – SFU Public Square – Simon Fraser University Haven’t these people got the message that race doesn’t exist? That it’s not a scientific topic and that there is no conceivable biological … Continue reading →

Source: If nuclear power had taken off – What if nuclear power had taken off in the 1970s? | The World If | The Economist

The reissue of this Aeon Essay prompted a couple of thoughts. First the Greeks, like the Egyptians, were surrounded by peoples of both darker and lighter complexion. To the North they had the startlingly white Northern barbarians and to the … Continue reading →