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The question of what it was like to live outside the settled culture of a state is therefore an important one for the over-all assessment of human history. If that life was, as Thomas Hobbes described it, “nasty, brutish, and short,” this is a vital piece of information for drawing up the account of how we got to be who we are. In essence, human history would become a straightforward story of progress: most of us were miserable most of the time, we developed civilization, everything got better. If most of us weren’t miserable most of the time, the arrival of civilization is a more ambiguous event. In one column of the ledger, we would have the development of a complex material culture permitting the glories of modern science and medicine and the accumulated wonders of art. In the other column, we would have the less good stuff, such as plague, war, slavery, social stratification, rule by mercilessly appropriating élites, and Simon Cowell.

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“Of course that’s not how mortgages actually work. It’s much worse than that”, he writes in a wryly funny piece, exploring the wide range in the accessibility of home ownership across the geography of the U.S. Expanding on the (overly optimistic) annual salary/house price comparison, he found that “the typical ratio of median home value to the median income is 1:3”.

My rule-of-thumb is that you can afford a house that costs twice your annual income.

I have no idea where I came up with that — perhaps some vague recollection from my youth — but it works out pretty well.

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America’s seemingly unceasing culture wars are not good for business, particularly for a region like Southern California. As we see Hollywood movie stars, professional athletes and the mainstream media types line up along uniform ideological lines, a substantial portion of the American ticket and TV watching population are turning them off, sometimes taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the bottom line.

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I have said before that no currently popular ideology acknowledges well-established results of behavioral genetics, quantitative genetics, or psychometrics. Or evolutionary psychology.

What if some ideology or political tradition did? what could they do? What problems could they solve, what capabilities would they have?

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At least some past societies avoided the social patterns leading to the nasty dysgenic trends we aer experiencing today, but for the most part that is due to the anthropic principle: if they’d done something else you wouldn’t be reading this. Also to between-group competition: if you fuck your self up when others don’t, you may be well be replaced. Which is still the case.

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When Hannah Scherlacher found her name on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s LGBTQ hate list, she called to ask why.

“I have never said or done anything to indicate hate for the LGBTQ community,” Scherlacher wrote in Fox News. “When I called to inquire, SPLC informed me that I am guilty because I did a radio interview with Family Research Council Radio. …The segment was about socialism, but because FRC holds traditional family values, I was labeled an LGBT-hater just for being a guest on the show. No LGBT topics even came-up.”

The search for heretics and sinner is never-ending.

We wondered why Trump was behaving like he is, but now we know: it’s all about revenge  The basic problem with ‘journalists’ is the most of what they ‘know’ ain’t so.

Trump’s White House has ‘become an adult day care center’, Republican senator Bob Corker says in extraordinary response to President’s attack  As a member of the petting zoo that is the U.S. Senate, he certainly ought to know.

Donald Trump takes credit for inventing the word ‘fake’  This is, of course, a lie — yet another proglodyte who can’t read at a third-grade level.

Donald Trump being sued ‘for forcing women off the pill’ in crackdown on female contraception  Such a hardship, being forced to buy their own birth control — which is $20 to $50 a month if not covered by insurance. If you can’t afford that, keep your pants zipped.

Freeberg continues the conversation.

I did not make this problem. The Z-Man didn’t make it either. We did not make it so that “manly-behavior” and “womanly-behavior” have lost all meaning and can no longer be used to reliably communicate thoughts in writing. Feminism did that, and it did it by design. This is part of its own internal contradiction, the thing that makes it inherently dysfunctional even according to its own rules. Men, you see, are entirely disposable because women are strong, and capable of doing everything men can do…and yet, at the same time, any distinctions between the two are culturally driven, arbitrary, unnatural and therefore invalid. The two sexes are the same in every way, it’s just that one of them is so much better and should be running things.

It can’t work. Ever. Not really. And yet when it fails, it’s all your fault.

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Nobody wants to live in a place where our public policy is flipped in an instant, like a pancake, because some late night comedian cries. Where science tells people to stop puzzling things out logically and stew in their emotions, if they want to succeed — so that you have to wonder now how the scientists are putting together their science. Where football has become a protest without an actual message, with the game-play as an afterthought.

Nobody really wants these things. Nobody.

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From everyday lane switches to periodic construction detours, being able to modify lanes quickly, easily and safely with machines helps both drivers and road workers alike. Faster operations reduce time in transit and frustration for people in cars. And as that traffic is flying past, lane-modifying vehicles also help reduce risks for construction workers (who might otherwise by put in harm’s way).

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And rightly so.

Have a tattoo? If the answer is “yes,” it’s more likely you’re unemployed or completely out of the labor force. On average, your income is lower. You’re more probably a smoker, use illegal drugs, engage in risky sexual behavior, have been a victim of crime, and have been incarcerated for committing crime yourself.

People – both males and females – with tats are less educated, have lower grade point averages, have limited vocabularies, suffer depression more frequently, are not as well groomed and – in the case of females – not as good looking.

All of this is detailed in two studies (the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health and the Australian Study of Health and Relationships) which collected information on tattoos. Unfortunately, the studies only included a yes or no question regarding having one or more tattoos, and didn’t differentiate between having one discrete tattoo from being covered from head to foot with tattoos glorifying demons, racism, sexism, violence, hatred and so forth.

But, the important question is, do people become losers because they get inked, or do they get inked because they’re losers. Which came first? The tattoo or being a loser?

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I do not give money (or anything else, including blood) to the Red Cross. I have been unimpressed with their performance for decades.

Freeberg scratches his head.

In real drama, you have to have a meaningful event or two happening. “A is a victim, B is the oppressor, C is the ignoramus and D is uniquely enlightened sage who can see what’s wrong” — if it is true at the end, it will all have to be true at the beginning. Right? If everything that’s true and that matters at the beginning, is still true at the end, there’s no place to put any kind of a story. You can’t have a plot. And, indeed, when I look at this depressing wilderness of movies made by liberals, I see they tend to strain under this problem. There is no plot, because nothing is happening, and nothing is happening because there’s no shift in these roles. The victim is still a victim. The ignoramus is still an ignoramus and the enlightened empathy-authority is still an enlightened empathy-authority. Maybe the oppressor stops oppressing, but that’s all you get.

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I am not making this up.

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According to the New York Post, an 18-year-old named Devon Ahmad attacked a 65-year-old white male after the two men shared an elevator.

Ahmad reportedly said, “White people suck. I hate white people. White people are the source of my problems.”

Black Identity Extremism is the new black.

Morning Joe: ‘Sun King’ Trump Is ‘Dear Leader’ of A ‘Cult,’ Making People ‘Kiss The Ring’

Planned Parenthood Blasts Trump for Rolling Back Obamacare Abortion Mandate: He Just Hates Women | LifeNews.com

Nobel Peace Prize winners issue warning about Trump  Which tells you more about the Nobel Peace Prize — and the people who win them — than it does about Donald Trump.

Prof Says She Warned Students ‘People Will Die’ Because Of Trump After Vegas [VIDEO]  Of course she did! But they won’t.

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Yesterday, October 5, after Rush read my article on his show, I made a video that included my reaction to him talking about it on the air. It wasn’t up for three hours before my videos started getting the dreaded yellow dollar signs — which means YouTube just took away my ability to be paid for them. YouTube made sure that whatever bump in subscribers or views I got from Rush would not benefit me in any way.

YouTube is owned by Google, whose motto is famously ‘Don’t Be Evil”.

But apparently not “Don’t Be Political”. If it doesn’t bother you that the people controlling our Internet infrastructure are rabid Social Justice Warriors, it ought to.

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Experts say the traveling panhandlers are Roma, sometimes called gyspies – an widely-used term based on a misconception that the Roma originated in Egypt (they originated in northern India) and a label increasingly seen as perjorative.

They weren’t too eager to talk to us. “How long do you stay on the train? How many hours?” we asked one mother. “I don’t know because it’s first time,” she said.

The Kleenex crew, as we soon were calling the other group, were chattier once they learned our producer spoke Italian. One man told us he rides the rails every day, from 9 a.m. to 7 or 8 p.m. He said he was also from Romania and lives in Hayward.

Hayward was also the home of another Kleenex panhandler. She told us she works the trains seven days a week and makes $50 to $100 a day.

“They come on to BART because it’s a target-rich environment,” said BART Deputy Police Chief Ed Alvarez.

While BART is well aware of the panhandling groups, “It’s a First Amendment protected right to panhandle,” said Alvarez.

Panhandling may be legal, but where is the money going?

It turns out the Kleenex crew isn’t as destitute as their “help me” notes would make it seem. On several different nights we recognized half a dozen of them loading into a couple of Audis, a Mercedes and a Kia and counting their haul for the day.

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As they have been for the last forty years.

And about fargin time.

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Thank you, Justin Trudeau.

A former Canadian ambassador to the U.S. says this week’s cancellation of the Energy East pipeline is a huge win for President Donald Trump’s administration.

Frank McKenna told CTV’s “Question Period” Saturday that the cancelled pipeline will keep oil-rich Alberta dependent upon shipping petroleum to U.S. markets.

“We see this as a huge win for Donald Trump and the United States of America. They get continued access to Canadian gas and oil for decades to come at deeply discounted prices,” he said. As a former premier of the Atlantic province of New Brunswick, where the pipeline was slated to pass, McKenna said the cancellation means at least 3,000 jobs potential jobs to build the project have now vanished.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is blaming Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the loss because new climate change criteria had recently been added to an already overly-bureaucratic review process.

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The madness continues.

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I am not making this up.

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A consistent Palestinian strategy for seeking statehood while blaming Israel for its absence has been codified through the narrative of “occupation.” The anniversary of the 1967 war brought this to the forefront in endless accusations regarding the Israeli “occupation” of the West Bank. There is even an assertion that Gaza is still “occupied.”

From that perspective, North Africa and Turkey are ‘occupied’, since those areas used to be Christian before the Muslims showed up.

Scott Adams is Mr Common Sense.

I’m pro-gun, but mostly for selfish reasons. Some people (such as celebrities) are probably safer with defensive weapons nearby. But I acknowledge the reality that guns make people less safe in other situations. No two situations are alike. That’s partly why the issue can never be fully resolved. Both sides pretend they are arguing on principle, but neither side is. Both sides are arguing from their personal risk profiles, and those are simply different. Our risk profiles will never be the same across the entire population, so we will never agree on gun control.

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Many pro-gun people in the debate seem to be confused about the purpose of laws in general. Laws are not designed to eliminate crime. Laws are designed to reduce crime. The most motivated criminals will always find a way, and law-abiding citizens will avoid causing trouble in the first place. Laws are only for the people in the middle who might – under certain situations – commit a crime. Any friction you introduce to that crowd has a statistical chance of making a difference.

Humans are lazy and stupid, on average. If you make something 20% harder to do, a lot of humans will pass. It doesn’t matter what topic you are discussing; if you introduce friction, fewer people do it. With that in mind, let’s look at the least-rational gun control arguments I am seeing lately.

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Food waste and the school lunch program are intimately linked. While former First Lady Michelle Obama—and her campaign to make school food healthier—is not responsible for creating the problem of food waste in our nation’s schools, the law she championed, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, has made an already bad problem far worse.

Proglodytes just assume that people will queue up like sheep and do what they’re told. Maybe Europeans do that, but not Americans.

“That directive is costing schools an added $5.4 million a day, of which $3.8 million worth of produce goes directly into the trash, according to national estimates,” reads one recent editorial in a Connecticut paper chastising the USDA for all of the food waste its program creates. “A Harvard Public Health study found that 60 percent of the vegetables and 40 percent of the fruits are being tossed. Researchers at the University of Vermont found an overall increase of 56 percent in wasted food as a direct result of the mandate.”

Of course, in the old days, Mom made your lunch, which you carried in a paper bag, if you were me, or a colorful decorative metal box, if you were an Obama.

“If kids aren’t eating the food, and it’s ending up in the trash, they aren’t getting any nutrition—thus undermining the intent of the program,” said USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue in May.

Hey, why let facts get in the way of virtue-signaling?

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What’s a snowflake to do?

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How appropriate.

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Last Saturday the device was an obscure novelty, dismissively regarded in gun circles. The next day it was a prime suspect in the killing of 59 people, and injuring of over 500 more in Las Vegas, Nevada. By midweek, bump stocks were the bullseye of our repetitive shooting match over gun control.

This is like attempting to prevent prostitution by banning high heels.

Predictably, talk of a ban has made bump stocks one of America’s fastest selling gun accessories. “Oh, God, yes, it’s been insane,” one Texas gun store owner told CNN Money. “Since this story has broke, we’ve been getting about 50 people a day asking for them.” Another from Maine said that he had five bump stocks gathering dust for months, before a post-Vegas buying spree saw them all snatched them up.

I hereby christen this the ‘Obama Effect’. Obama’s constant jawing about gun control made his eight years a great time for firearms manufacturers. When people think you’re going to ban something they want, they stock up.

University Prez Tried To Stop Donald Trump Jr. From Giving Speech But Wound Up Failing

Liberal Pundit: Unpopular Trump Could Be Re-Elected, Since ‘Character Assassination Is the GOP Specialty’  Like being called ugly by a frog.

Clothing store advocating hate has billboard of Trump depicted as Hitler removed in a day

The cost of Donald Trump’s travel could pay to send 128 cargo ships full of aid to Puerto Rico  Not a  peep about Obama’s travel. And how many cargo ships could be send for a MSM anchor’s pay?

Donald Trump is failing and the White House is working overtime to cover it up  Sure looks like he’s winning to me. Maybe not in this alternate reality.

Donald Trump’s administration accused of undermining Affordable Care Act  Oh, ya think?

Mika Brzezinski Says Trump Has A ‘Strange Sexual’ Thing For Her  He’s got Melania, sweetheart, he doesn’t need you.

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And yet none dare call it raaaaaaacist.

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Hey, it’s all about priorities. I’ve never had a beer unfriend me on Facebook.

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Of course they do. He’s a rich Democrat and therefore one of the Elect (and a source of many campaign contributions). The hunt for Heretics and Sinners must look elsewhere.

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Hey, it’s still a Hate Crime — after all, facts don’t matter in comparison to Offended Feelings.

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Welcome to the jungle, dude. What goes around, comes around.

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Great. More people will be leaving there. We have plenty of room in Texas, folks, and no ThoughtCrime laws.

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Perhaps he thought, being in the Security Theater profession, that they were colleagues of a sort.

Japanese firms keen to tap into Malaysian halal market to appeal to Muslim customers

Rohingya Muslim crisis: UN blasts Burma as ‘unacceptable’ after access refused to Rakhine state  Amazing how ineffective the U.N. always turns out to be.

Saudi King’s golden escalator breaks down as he arrives in Moscow to sign arms deals with Putin  Don’t you just hate it when that happens?

UN blacklists Saudi Arabia-led military coalition for killing or injuring hundreds of children in Yemen

Resisting the Islamization of Romania

British pharmacist showed Isis beheading video to child and claimed they were ‘not bad people’

Pakistan bombing: Suicide attack at Shia shrine kills 12 people

Iraqi military recaptures vital Isis stronghold of Hawija

‘An Everyday Reality’: How France’s Way of Life, Laws Have Evolved in the Face of Islamist Terrorism

No to Islam in the Czech Republic!

Illegal Immigrant and Multiple Recidivist Remained in France For Twelve Years Before His Deadly Jihad

Paris explosion: Motorcycle explodes in front of Jordanian military office in France

French police arrest couple with rocket launcher and Kalashnikov near Marseille

Somali Refugee Accused Of Canada Terror Attack Was Ordered Deported From US

Britain Restricts Acid Sales After Nearly 2,000 Attacks in Seven Years

Saudi Arabia carries out 100th execution so far this year

Afghan Will Kill You!

“Nobody Wants the Foreigners”

France Is About To Enter A Permanent State Of Emergency

“Allahu Akhbar” at the Opera in Romania

One Person, One Vote, One Time

Immigration Law Forces Muslims To Integrate Into Austrian Culture

Somali Refugee Accused In Stabbing Not Charged With Terrorism

Thousands of Muslims march against Isis in London

Rohingya Muslims fleeing genocide are a ‘security threat’, Syria’s Grand Mufti claims

Pig’s head thrown through Muslim family’s window in ‘appalling hate crime’ in Manchester  As opposed to a ‘love crime’, I suppose.

Bomb found near Parc des Princes hours before Paris Saint-Germain were due to play Bordeaux

Stephen Paddock: Isis gives Las Vegas gunman jihadi name in new claim amid widespread scepticism over terror links

French police arrest ‘radicalised’ man after explosive device found in affluent Paris suburb

Five Arrested After Bomb Is Discovered In Paris Building

NHL Player Calls For Tighter Immigration Controls After Terror Attack By Somali Refugee

Muslim woman forced to uncover her face by armed Austrian police in the street

Marseille: Isis claims responsibility for stabbings after leader’s renewed call for attacks on West

Damascus bomb blast ‘suicide attack on police station’, eyewitnesses report

Somali Refugee Accused Of Terrorism Was On A Watch List  Although he probably didn’t say ‘hold my beer’ first.

New Study: Most UK Jihadists Tied to Non-Violent Islamism  Gee, you’d think the religion was inherently violent or something.

In Canada, Liberal MPs Ambush a Moderate Muslim

New Migration Routes Into Europe

Israel Prepares for War in Syria against Iran

Edmonton Terrorist Is a Somali Refugee

Report: Terrorist Who Killed Two Women In France Believed To Be Algerian Man

Jihad Terror in Edmonton

Jihad Terror in Marseille

Terrorist Suspect Arrested After Stabbing Edmonton Police Officer

Austrian face veil ban comes into force under new ‘integration’ policy

Edmonton Man With ISIS Flag In Car Stabs Police Officer, Runs Down Pedestrians

Man In Marseille Stabs Two Women To Death, Screams ‘Allahu Akbar’

Egypt “hunting down” gays, conducting forced anal exams – Amnesty

Kurdish independence referendum: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says Kurds will ‘pay the price’

U.S. Citizen Convicted Of Al Qaeda Ties, Conspiring To Kill Americans  Nothing says American like ‘Muhanad Mahoud Al-Farekh’

The decline of Turkish schools

German Psychiatrist: Muslim Immigrants Have an Insane Potential for Violence  There it is — you can’t argue with Science.

Saudis Arrest Man For Threatening To Burn Women Drivers

Isis launches full-scale propaganda offensive as it loses battles in Syria and Iraq

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The Nobel Peace prize has gone from being a prize for achieving peace to being a prize for working toward peace to being a virtue-signaling prize for doing nothing about peace but nevertheless expressing the Crust’s wish that peace would somehow magically arrive without any effort on the part of people in power.

This is how Barack Obama could get it before he had had a chance to do anything other than make Magic Negro speeches, because that’s all that was necessary for virtue-signaling. He so perfectly encapsulated the Crust’s preferred methodology of doing nothing while talking a good fight that it was impossible not to give him the prize, even though it astonished the Dirt People.

Mika Brzezinski: ‘This Is The Most Absurd Presidency’  And yet he keeps winning. And he keeps getting things done. How do you account for that, Little Miss Narrative?

New Fox News Host Says Interacting With Trump Put Her In Fetal Position  I’m not sure whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

Study: September TV Coverage Of Trump 92 Percent Negative

Donald Trump is a ‘textbook racist’, claims Duke University professor  Well, no, textbook racists are all Democrats, e.g. Bull Connor, Orval Faubus, etc.

‘What Trump is doing is pure evil’: Thousands scrabble to keep DACA protection as extension deadline expires  Funny how many people think obeying the law is ‘pure evil’.

I just listened to a podcast (look in iTunes for “Jonah Goldberg Remnant” by Jonah Goldberg (of National Review and the American Enterprise Institute) in which he has a conversation with Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska. I enjoyed it a lot. I almost wish I lived in Nebraska so that I could vote for him. Sasse is a very articulate, very witty guy, and it’s a very fun time. Highly recommended.

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Not a headline that you see every day.

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Meal kits, like Blue Apron, have always stood for the family lives of our fantasies

This brought home to me that I am probably not the target demographic of these services, since neither my parents nor myself were ever divorced. Nor is it important to me that dinner represent a new and exciting culinary discovery; those who know me well know also that ‘new’ and ‘exciting’ aren’t part of my personality.

In its evocation of a family dinner table with no past and no future — having no leftovers is one of the key advertising promises of these services — meal-kit delivery services promise that, with the help of e-commerce, traditional family life can continue undisturbed even as the underlying structures that produced the family as we know it are undergoing extreme disruption. If becoming an adult is learning to parent yourself, meal-kit delivery imagines that parent at sea in the overwhelming churn of an unmoored and unrecognizable life.

That’s more angst than I really need in a meal. I enjoy cooking the things that I know how to cook, and I’d really like to be a great cook but am constitutionally unable to put in the time and effort to become one. And nobody in 1950s Indiana ate food that originated in a foreign country, except maybe Italian on Friday night because you could get spaghetti sauce without meat. (My mother gave us Chop Suey once. From a can. It didn’t end well.)

Lileks has his unique take here.

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Unlike swans, ospreys, coyotes, and termites, the primates known as Homo sapiens do not generally mate for life. While some of us naked apes may find one partner and stay with them forever, never straying, history tells us that it has not been the norm for our species. Nevertheless, marriage, a social technology, has sprung up in most societies and on every inhabited continent.

For the majority of its existence, marriage has been a worldly matter, having to do with the transfer of property, the creation and support of children, the tracking of bloodlines, and the control of women. For these reasons, it was usually a man-woman affair, regardless of a society’s feelings toward homosexuality. But although there have been marriages throughout most of human civilization, this does not mean that there were weddings. There are, for example, no weddings in the Bible. Marriages were made official through the signing of a contract or some other means of formalized agreement, but a marriage was not generally considered to be a spiritual or even romantic occasion. And because there were no weddings, for a long time there could be no true wedding dresses, either.

Well, really, there weren’t any real weddings before Vogue.

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How about that great government-run health care! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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It is a logical and factual error to apply the collective “we” to Americans, except when referring generally to the citizens of the United States. Other instances of “we” (e.g., “we” won World War II, “we” elected Barack Obama) are fatuous and presumptuous. In the first instance, only a small fraction of Americans still living had a hand in the winning of World War II. In the second instance, Barack Obama was elected by amassing the votes of fewer than 25 percent of the number of Americans living in 2008 and 2012. “We the People” — that stirring phrase from the Constitution’s preamble — was never more hollow than it is today.

You will have heard me castigate (can’t say ‘denigrate’ these days) this as the Aggregation Fallacy.

Further, the logical and factual error supports the unwarranted view that the growth of government somehow reflects a “national will” or consensus of Americans. Thus, appearances to the contrary (e.g., the adoption and expansion of national “social insurance” schemes, the proliferation of cabinet departments, the growth of the administrative state) a sizable fraction of Americans (perhaps a majority) did not want government to grow to its present size and degree of intrusiveness. And a sizable fraction (perhaps a majority) would still prefer that it shrink in both dimensions. In fact, The growth of government is an artifact of formal and informal arrangements that, in effect, flout the wishes of many (most?) Americans. The growth of government was not and is not the will of “we Americans,” “Americans on the whole,” “Americans in the aggregate,” or any other mythical consensus.

Precisely so.

Russell Brand Attacks Trump As ‘Stupid’ And Cruel On ‘The View’  For which, of course, there is absolutely no evidence; he’s just ‘virtue signaling’ so he can sit at the Cool Kids’ table in Hollywood.

ABC/CBS Discredit Trump’s Visit to Puerto Rico as Photo-Op  Of course, if he hadn’t gone, they would have complained about that.

New ABC Comedy ‘The Mayor’ Offers ‘Liberal Fantasy Retelling’ Of Trump Election  Much the same way that the Harrison Ford movie The President’s Plane Is Missing was a fantasy retelling of the Clinton Presidency, in which proglodytes got the President of their dreams rather than a hick corndog who caved to Republicans rather than Leading Us All Forward to the Revolution.

Soros, Kellogg, Ford Gave Millions To Anti-Trump Resistance Group

Michael Moore: ‘We Have Got to Get Rid Of Trump,’ 2nd Amendment  So what’s your plan? Just talk, I’m thinking.

Morning Joe Paints Trump As A Sociopathic Dictator After Puerto Rico Visit  If that were true these two would be in jail.

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It was traditionally believed the remains of St Nicholas – said to have miraculous powers – were exhumed and taken to Bari, southern Italy, by Christian merchants in 1087, where they are held in the Basilica di San Nicola.

But the Turkish researchers, having analysed new documents, believe the merchants removed the wrong remains from the church.