I just listened to the episode a few days ago. I was totally with them when they said the prosecutor was awesome swooping in with the new charges so quickly.

Ah, I see what you’re saying now. I’m not familiar with this site, but from the article, I didn’t get the feeling that there was no footprint. But you have a good point, you’d expect a paper.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of racist whack jobs, but the more common reason it’s still disputed is that the lack of footprint makes people conclude that these places never existed at all (because of using organic materials rather than stone) . In more recent years there have been more researchers considering the…

It’s nice that there are archeologists and historians that are challenging the old narrative of “there’s no way a complex society could have been here before the Europeans!” I just finished reading The Lost City of Z and the author talks about the racist assumptions that have pervaded the historical narrative and…

Agreed. I worry much more about the cleanliness of these bathrooms than who is using them

That’s what I was thinking, too. If it’s believed to be “reversible” then that would make the whole thing more appealing to people on the fence. Exactly the opposite of what he’s intending

I grew up ELS (only church WELS will worship/pray with, I think) and it was beyond repressive as a female. We grew up learning how we would serve the men in the congregation. When I moved to LCMS the people we had gone to church with basically salted the earth behind us so we couldn’t come back.