Sure. Herodotus frequently mentions his sources, which is why it’s easy to track down where he got his information. (Although he didn’t refer to the headless men as Blemmyes; it was Pliny who much later conflated Herodotus’ account with that of Strabo, who had located Blemmyes in the upper reaches of the Nile.) I…

It’s like 1988 Reagan. Scary shit.

I guess it’s hard for me to believe that Greek and Roman descriptions of people in Africa (or Europe or Central Asia, for that matter) weren’t informed by foreign sources in some way. According to his own account, Herodotus traveled Persian controlled Egypt and collected information from a range of sources. If the…

The population of North Africa was pretty diverse during his own era. It would have been easy for him to visit the continent and do business with lots of different people who would have, in their own ways, differentiated themselves from one another: Egyptians, Phoenicians, Punic speaking Berbers, Berber speaking…

Yes, it goes to state coffers, but it also reduces pack sales of cigarettes by a measurable amount. That’s a good thing, IMHO, regardless of where the money goes (use it to paint a bridge, for all I care, fewer kids smoking is a good thing).

The article calls him an “Associate Professor,” as does his faculty page at Trinity. Generally, an Associate has tenure, unless promotion and tenure happen separately, which is possible at some colleges and universities.

I could have told you whether it was coke in about 10 seconds...

A black and white kitty.

Adjuncts are, unfortunately, a dime a dozen. No one wants their opinion, just their blood and sweat.

Gay is worse than drinking, but not quite dancing.

Hey Joanna! You guys should cover California’s move to restrict state funds from being used for travel to states that discriminate against LGBTQ people. Kentuckians are having a meltdown because SB17 puts them on the list. I believe Texas is also on the list, for this specific law.

“The standard is that the fear needed to be reasonable, which is attempting as an objective standard. The problem is that it’s not objective because black person immediately make the situation more threatening in the mind of too many people.”

Amateur. I’d just open the car door and pump the brakes...

Pew pew! Glad you posted this.

Bullseye.

I’ll venture to give my two cents under the assumption that you aren’t trolling but genuinely asking out of real ignorance. I think that there is a significant distinction with a major difference here. From what I understand about violent crime, statistically speaking, most people are killed by people they know,…

I am also a white male who knows how toxic white masculinity can be. I guess I’m a traitor to my race/gender. Oh well...

Yep. The hero status of these shit heels after 9/11 definitely made things incrementally worse. Authority wielding deadly force that is beyond criticism is a problem. The military also falls into this category.

My thoughts exactly. Fucking sucks.

I basically only started having contact with my father after a seven year hiatus when I was living near my parents last fall. He’s an asshole (racist, rage-a-holic, homophobic) but I thought I’d give it a try. I realized that I wasn’t missing much, but the guilt still compelled me to try. Since moving back to my…