“In the Freethought Now article‘What is a woman?’,author Kat Grant struggles at length to define the word, rejecting one definition after another as flawed or incomplete. Grant finally settles on a definition based on self-identity: ‘A woman is whoever she says sheis. This of course i...
Joe and Kamala are stand-up, intelligent, competent, compassionate people, but yikes – look at how many problems they have to fix. What looms largest, exacerbated by #45, are the worldwide effects of global warming. Biden and Harris accept the obvious, hard truths laid out by science, b...
One of her first actions as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the supreme governor. This era, later named the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, would evolve into the Church of England. It was expected that Elizabeth would marry and produce an heir...
So not only are these systems not very good at coming up with “good” schedules, they are very disinclined to come up with a clear definition of what “good” looks like, and they won’t share what (if anything) they are doing to balance the cheapest schedule with the best schedule f...
Pope, Arthur
If, in the situation of the wise man, there were more circumstances which were the natural objects of rejection than of choice, the whole situation became the object of rejection, and the rule which the gods had given him for the direction of his conduct, required that he should remove ...
Alive and REALLY hope to do a chapter of Witch's Daughter, but RL has ambushed me as it does.So in the meantime, I'll leave you with some stuff: This was written by a friend. I don't think it will be that bad, at least not for most of us, but when things
Pope 1952, 15657, citing rhymes by Chr tien de Troyes Champenois such as braz:pars, lais:travers, Grezeis:veirs, sorpirs:ententis, says that it deleted especially frequently before l and s. In the Basel glossary also Champenois, however, the scribes use a variety of symbols to...
December 25 also becameassociated with the god Mithra…. During the fourth century, during emperor Constantine’s reign, it was the Catholic Church that decided to make Jesus’ birthday a formal holiday and set that date for December 25, centuries after Jesus was said to have lived…. ...
You’ve heard those phrases before; you’ll hear them again. You may even believe them. But I’m gonna shove my elbow down the throat of the next person who says that within earshot ofmoiself. Because, guess what? This *is* whoweare – at least, nearly half of the voting “we.”...