People in the Gorge began to call the new enterprise Voldemort Industries, after the villain in theHarry Potterseries, also referred to as He Who Shall Not Be Named. Once the facility opened, you couldn’t find it onGoogleMaps, which was strange: The plant was as big as two football fie...
Let’s just get something out of the way: The ancient tribal propaganda is neither literal nor inerrant and it’s impossible for it to be so. Who Wrote the Torah According to the Torah? One glaring example of the post-Mosaic authorship of the Torah is its description of Moses’ death....
The second of Professor George’s conclusions is that GI turns the student into a tribalist. What he means by that is that he “outsources his thinking to the group.”“Tribalist” means a good deal more to me than that, so I am going to treat this as two effects, rather than one,...
It was already after 10 when I arrived on Rinca Island, and by that hour, I was told I only had time for a hike on the three hour long “Medium Trail” along a dry riverbed, despite my protests that I would have preferred the “Long Trail” along the cove. The weather was already...
powers and the resistance to oppression.The US occupation of Iraq had stirredup a cauldron of sectarian strife. Its topplingof the Sadam regime opened space for theShia compradors to come to power. Yet,when it came to pacifying the resistance,the US had to rely on Sunni tribal chieftains...
The North Dakota Senate rejects a plan that would have enabled residents to vote on asports betting bill. January 2023 The North Dakota House considers the legalization ofonline sports betting and retailbeyond tribal casinos. As North Dakota continues to develop its approach to betting, this histor...
The term itself translates to anti-fascists and to my knowledge there is no formal membership or way to enroll in the “organization.” They can’t be tracked by political allegiance or party rolls. Often self professed believers would be seen at protests to express anger over systemic oppress...
After fortifying his courage with a few beers in the parking lot, he wore the cheddar-yellow, wedged-shaped headpiece into County Stadium for a Brewers game. More than anyone on earth, Bruno has helped turn what was once a derogatory term for Wisconsinites (said to be coined by folks in ...
Great read right here on Slate. Just a sample below.The attacks on the press have ranged from well-reasoned to offensive to paranoid, but the gaming journalists unwisely decided to respond to the growing, nebulous anger by declaring that “gamers” w
However, we should accept this claim with some doubt, because Singer shared certain tribal affiliations with the media owners that may have caused them to prop him up, while silencing much more sincere and articulate advocates. In fact, I may have inadvertently taken sides in what was actually...