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15 Dec 2014, 12:12 pm
Dogs, cats, and horses are domestic animals, shaped by millennia of selective breeding for temperament to overcome the aggression of their wild fore-bearers. [read post]
"Yes, beer names based on penis jokes do exist. But these represent men making fun of themselves..."
14 Dec 2014, 6:01 am
I'm sorry to say that the still-glaring under-representation of women in the craft beer industry (not to mention millennia of systematic oppression and patriarchy) will require more than a few names like 'Morning Wood' labels to iron out this issue. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 4:05 am
And it doesn’t bear thinking how many stone axe heads have flown off at critical junctures over the millennia. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 1:33 pm
Rehabilitative punishment a relatively new concept Rehabilitation of criminal offenders is—at least in mankind’s several-millennia-old legal systems—a new concept. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 11:00 pm
Ask any doctor or veterinarian to rate the important medical discoveries of the past century, and antibiotics would surely be at or near the top of the list. [read post]
16 Nov 2014, 9:11 am
Remove the emotionalism and tribal disdain and there are ways to manage this millennia-old problem that address concerns of property owners, but it won't be resolved by cops, courts or ever-more criminal penalty enhancements that never worked before and won't work now. [read post]
9 Nov 2014, 5:02 pm
But for millennia, people have also dreamed about immortality, and now transhumanists are actively trying to extend life by merging our bodies with machines. [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 2:24 pm
” Though not sitting in Rome, the Supreme Court insists on doing like the Romans did millennia ago, and avoids informative headings. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 4:05 am
And thus creation went forward for centuries and centuries, millennia and millennia until it became what we know today, in fact because God is not a demiurge or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 3:12 pm
But the possibility of a timing change and the accompanying exchange of a fee to bring it about has, literally, posed questions for millennia. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 6:00 am
"Matchmakers have been doing this for millennia," wrote US District Judge Denise Cote in her order invalidating the patent. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 11:39 am
From Indianz: Now that the primary is over and Dan Sullivan is the Republican nominee running against Alaska Senator Mark Begich, it’s time to closely examine his record on issues of import to Alaska Natives. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 9:01 pm
For millennia, Orthodox Jews have been celebrating the birth of a boy with a ceremony called a “bris” at which the boy is named and circumcised by a rabbi. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 1:00 pm
. *** The first “rational basis” argued by the Amici Curiae is that, “FMPA” memorializes millennia of history and tradition…Tradition alone cannot justify the unequal treatment of same-sex couples any more than it could justify the ban of interracial marriages, law forbidding women from voting, segregation, etc. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 8:19 am
Rabbi Daniel Gordis makes a similar point in the latest issue of Commentary, discussing specifically rabbinical students who express hostility to Israel, though his point could be extended to many on the Jewish left: If you asked a Jew at any other time in the history of our people whether or not he had enemies, the notion that he should consider the possibility he did not have enemies would have occasioned a blast of the mordant humor that has helped keep our tribe alive through the… [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 8:49 am
Music has been a central part of the human experience for millennia. [read post]
9 Jun 2014, 4:27 am
There is a price to be paid for having fine cheeses, or any number of other foods, drinks, things that humans have come to value for their wonders over the centuries and millennia. [read post]
5 Jun 2014, 4:00 am
… Finally, all of these state-based privatized (or privatizing) systems – civil, administrative, legislative, … – operate in addition to the already robust, millennia-old tradition of resolving the vast majority of virtually all disputes through mechanisms entirely separate from formal state processes (private negotiations, religious and community-based dispute resolution tools, etc.). [read post]
19 May 2014, 1:50 pm
It was but 1986 when the United States Supreme Court justified, on the basis of a”millennia of moral teaching,” the imprisonment of gay men and lesbian women who engaged in consensual sexual acts. [read post]
9 May 2014, 4:00 am
We might, I suppose, neglect the earnest naming of our toes because we’re going to lose the little toe in a few thousand millennia, or so some speculate, from where it’s only a hop, skip and a stumble to hooves. [read post]
