Mr_Random, you are incorrect in saying that money controls people.

I've worked as an adoption coordinator at a no-kill animal shelter for about 5 years now. We track the length of stay for each animal that comes into the shelter. Last year we looked at our length of stay for the past 10 years with black dogs vs. our yearly average for non black animals. Black dogs spent on average…

*Areas* *Areas* *Areas* WHY CAN'T PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THERE IS NOTHING AT ALL POSSESSIVE ABOUT ENTERING A NEW AREA RATHER IT IS SIMPLY PLURAL JESUS HOW DO PEOPLE GRADUATE HIGH SCHOOL WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THIS

The author's fucked up grammar/apostrophe use makes it impossible for me to take any of these etiquette tips seriously. Yes, I'm a snob.

Thanks for posting more from the NAA website. Now we are even more informed on the incorrect stance they take on vaccinations.

What's funny about your outrage is that you promote learning English using poor grammar. It's "here", not "hear". America is capitalized. It's "and", not "an". It's "expect", not "except". It sounds like some Mexicans could probably teach you more functional English. No respect for this country? I went balls out for…

That's a mean trick. It would have been more impressive if the dog got mad, bit him and he made the bite disappear. Lol.

Am I just too damned old? I know these are pretty, and I recognize most of them, but the idea of watching 5 minutes' worth of one second clips just makes me go "uh uh." I mean you aint gotta show us the whole movie, but gimme something to linger over for a moment, you know?

I love me some animal shows! You should check out "My Life as a Turkey." SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOD!

Agreed, Correia lost me with "backpeddled."

This is just silly. GG&S says: don't feel overly proud if you are a member of the dominant culture, because its dominance is a matter of chance and circumstance, not anything particularly special about your ancestors. That is the exact opposite of how Correia portrays it! He could not have gotten it more wrong. …

Correia's article is typical of the viewpoint common to many liberals and academics, that primitive societies must, by definition, be more noble and evolved than industrialized societies.

Strange, a real human behavioural ecologist had no such problem with it in her review in Nature.

It is clear that many/most of the naysayers on this thread have not actually read GG&S, nor the title in question.

Is asserting that native New Guineans are *more* intelligent than westerners racist? Nor does he excuse the actions of conquistadors and colonizers in explaining why their (no less awful) task was…

This was my thought too. In the beginning of "Guns, Germs, and Steel", Diamond writes at length about how the people he knows in "primitive" societies are as intelligent and resourceful as anyone he knows from the West. This is the basis of the central question of "Guns, Germs, and Steel"; why didn't these equally…

It's funny, every time I read an article on Gawker or Jezebel where a black writer touches on a the subject of race or any other touchy subject, white readers are always complaining about how they don't understand the article, or the grammar was bad or some other petty shit that has nothing to do with the point of the…

Well, history books are probably your best bet. You can read architecture wiki entries, but a lot of them are left underdeveloped for my taste.

Another submission of a night view of the skyline that my grandpa sent my uncle when he was in New York for work in 1941.

The New World epidemics likely outdid them. We are only now starting to understand how densely populated the Americas were, because in many cases the epidemics ran ahead of explorers. The first European to travel down the Amazon talked about the dense cities and villages along the river; by the time colonizers…

No he didn't. Two or three uncredited screenwriters did, he had "notes", they applied the "notes", AND HIS NAME WENT ON IT.