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31 Jan 2017, 11:43 am
United States challenges the constitutionality of the United States’ decades-long policy on climate change.[2] The plaintiffs, a group of 21 children and young adults, sued the United States and various government officials[3] alleging that they have known for more than five decades “that the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels was destabilizing the climate system in a way that would ‘significantly endanger plaintiffs, with the damage persisting for millennia. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 11:29 am
He told Bonauto that the traditional definition of marriage has been around for millennia, but it has only been a little over a decade since the Court held that Texas could not criminalize sex between two consenting adults of the same sex. [read post]
4 Dec 2011, 3:47 pm
The tragic theme spans the millennia in Greek drama, from brutal patricide in the 5th-century-BC works of Sophocles to the equally-famous calamity of superfluous nausea-inducing Avatar-bandwagoning 3-D treatment of Clash of the Titans (ca 2010).As it happens, we turn not to Clash of the Titans (sorry), but to Sophocles to set the tone of our present pontification. [read post]
24 Apr 2023, 8:30 pm
The separation of powers was Montesquieu's ingenious solution to a problem that plagued civilizations for millennia before him: create a government that is effective enough to protect individual rights, but not so effective that the same government can violate individual rights without consequence. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 5:01 am
Four millennia later, we can still hear the voices they record. [read post]
12 May 2017, 6:44 am
The Master-Apprentice relationship has been around for millennia. [read post]
10 Nov 2007, 1:35 am
However, I believe the Bible is a moral document, and since debates over "what is moral" and "what is just" date back millennia, only a fool would ignore it or deny its historical relevance to western jurisprudence or as a moral touchstone.On the question of corroboration, I think the ancient Jews got it right, not just for snitches but also for eyewitnesses, whose testimony may often be flawed from either error or secret motivations. [read post]
15 Oct 2021, 1:47 am
From millennia-old archeological excavations to future autonomous vehicles, from diplomats to health research, music, and baking, at Bright! [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 1:38 pm
Dissent: "That architecture is an expressive art is a proposition that has stood unchallenged for millennia. [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 4:59 pm
China had a robust and complex financial system for millennia, later compromised by European financial colonization and such shameful incidents as the opium trade. [read post]
7 May 2017, 5:28 am
They’re the ideas of philosophy that have been around for millennia, propounded by people whose names you learned and now revile. [read post]
9 Jul 2023, 12:56 pm
Quick Acting Impact: Unlike carbon dioxide, which can persist in the atmosphere for centuries or maybe millennia, methane has a relatively short atmospheric lifespan of approximately 12 years. [read post]
8 Jun 2009, 12:02 am
No doubt, through the millennia lovers have betrayed one another, but the mass-marketing of such betrayals, at high prices, is a relatively new development in what we call civilization.Romance is a turbulent surf that, withdrawing, leaves a tangle of debris in its wake. [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]
26 Jun 2015, 12:38 pm
…The Court invalidates the marriage laws of more than half the States and orders the transformation of a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians and the Aztecs. [read post]
21 Jan 2014, 8:22 am
Rather, it's a historical reference, part of a millennia-old rhetorical tradition of condemning current policy by comparing it hyperbolically to past abuse. [read post]
13 May 2022, 9:00 am
This has been done for millennia, going back to ancient Rome, largely for purposes of inheritance, but in more modern times for purposes of arranging a family that fits who you are and how you identify. [read post]
16 Jul 2009, 9:41 am
Very basically, and adopting a Pooh Bear of little brain approach, it seems that what happened was as follows:For a long, long time, millennia even (according to some clay tablets from Mesopotamia), people have been buying financial contracts based on the future value of something. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 3:52 pm
Cleopatra was the last Pharaoh in Egypt 50 years before the birth of Jesus Christ, and women continued to hold positions of authority through the millennia. [read post]
24 May 2015, 5:37 am
It’s not that I don’t appreciate the value of learning the deep thought of those handful of individuals whose ideas have survived millennia of scrutiny, as opposed to an article in Glamour Magazine about Gloria Steinem, together with advice about which lipstick matches one’s complexion, but neither goes to a particularly marketable skill. [read post]
