Yeah, the Catholics complaining have (according to their doctrine at least) eaten the actual body and drank the actual blood of Christ. This is just a cake, lighten up.

I was going to say maybe a RHD import would be more convenient for someone without a right arm, but this is even better. 

That is certainly a theory in modern poli sci that seems to have some truth to it (if for no other reason than making war more expensive makes it less appealing), but that theory is talking about between states. The roman empire was characterized much more by internal rather than international trade.   

This is a great piece of writing.

I think you might be getting the causality flipped there. Not so much a case of “trade makes peace” as “massive state investment in infrastructure and the army makes trade.”  

TIL “Sod Poodles”

Can I enter on behalf of a hungry polar bear?

I was thinking Tang when I wrote the comment, but you make some good points there.

Also rhubarb leaves.

Look what you’ve started, we’ll never scape the puns.

I had a liquid nitrogen sorbet thing done table side once that was both entertaining and delicious.

Bettman enjoys playing the villain I think.

Give any other omnivore the psychical and mental tools to run a dairy and they would too. Hell, put some milk in a bowl in front of a dog, most of them will drink it.

Setting aside the whole natural/unnatural false dichotomy, I also don’t get the vegan/vegetarian foods that are trying to imitate normal food. They’re pretty uniformly terrible.

Kind of sounds like it doesn’t it?

I guess it depends on the era, but in the ones I’m most familiar with members of the imperial family (other than heirs) were kept away from positions of any power in general and military command in particular. Once you finally get to be emperor you don’t want some jerk-off cousin usurping you just because he’s…

I always wondered why that style doesn’t seem to have persisted in Japanese martial arts to any great extent.

Agriculture has caused lots of health problems, it doesn’t mean we should give it up.  

Which is too bad. I’d really like to go back to the west. It’s probably just a result of playing too much Fallout 2 as a kid, but I like the western settings better. 

Yeah, anyone who thinks that people and groups like this are going to stop with their current targets has been living under a rock.