You're making a lot of assumptions: that men hunted, that only men hunted, that hunting allows someone to observe the gait of the creature depicted more than someone observing the hunt, that hunting is the only way to see something to paint it. It doesn't make sense at all.

Other thinking thoughtful questions that Scalia has posted on his livejournal in the past few years:

"Chivalry arose as a response to the violence and barbarism of the Middle Ages."

Did you read the article? Like, literally. Because the article literally says, and I quote, "It is not "chivalrous" to open the door for someone, carry their groceries, or pay for their dinner if you invited them to dine. It is polite."

Did anyone else notice that the excerpted quotation from the scientist assumes that the prehistoric artist is a man? "...the prehistoric man, with a primitive culture and artistic techniques, would work with a much greater rate of error than his later counterparts. Prehistoric men illustrated the walking..."

I'm assuming that its unlicensed status meant that it was marginally (at least) less expensive than legit daycares. If this is true, then it's likely that the people hiring him didn't/don't have access to various technologies that would allow information like this to be obvious—i.e., lots of people actually don't…

I think the article means that she's classy because she wore an AT shirt to the interview. Whether or not she plans to sue has nothing to do with her classiness, but with her decision to wear the shirt. Which kind of doesn't make sense, but whatever.

Actually, "like" does serve a purpose.

Good thing I speak English, so I don't have to worry about Polish conversational rules.

Oh man, thanks. I'm hiring movers for the first time next month (packing things myself, getting movers to transport boxes and furniture etc) and I've never done it before. I appreciate the advice.

Well, if you're a person with a vagina, and you live in Michigan, then the anti-choice legislators are, in fact, very concerned with her vagina. Because her vagina might one day need an abortion, and they're very concerned with controlling what her reproductive system does. I mean, if they're talking about what she is…

Actually, sex (like all science) is social. Anything that involves human interpretation is (in part) determined by socialization. That's why scientists in the 19th century, who were really invested in being objective observers, could scientifically prove things that we understand as totally untrue.

Beowulf is not Celtic. Old English/Anglo Saxon is not a Celtic language. It's Germanic. It's, like, an entirely different thing. An entirely different mythology.

Ugh. "There are absolutes in psychopathy and the main absolute is a literal absence of empathy. It's just not there. In higher-scoring psychopaths, what grows in the vacant field where that empathy should be is a joy in manipulating people, a lack of remorse, a lack of guilt. If you've got a little bit of empathy,…

Well, why do you choose to be a good man? You can say "It's not because I have empathy," but then your explanation for your own morality becomes tautological: I am a good man because I am a good man. That's not an explanation.

Smoking bans are more for the workers than the customers. If you're a waitress, you have a right to a smoke-free workplace. This is especially pressing for, for example, pregnant workers.

Wait. Was Professor Fussy the former Mayor of Sunnydale?

The common denominator is not you. It's rape culture and patriarchy. You haven't done anything wrong. But you've clearly got some shit locked down—you survived, for one, and you're angry, for two, and you're aware that your complex feelings and self-loathing is fucked up, three, and you're aware that it's not your…

This is a great comment. I especially think that there may be things about Neanderthal communication that we can't know—will never know—that ought to make cloning unethical. For example, let's say that there's something about Neanderthal communication that would make communication with modern humans impossible, or…

Wait how would human cloning end the organ transplant lists? I don't mean cloning a human heart, but cloning a whole human? Or do you mean cloning just organs and stuff, as opposed to cloning and growing humans as organ farms? I am confused.