Sure they did, the Romans definitely had it at some level, and Egypt was of course long a captive Roman province. Perhaps fonio was part of the constant steam of grain exported to Italy as part of the “corn dole” maintained in order to keep the urban peasantry alive and minimally restive?

Mothers everywhere should definitely be telling children not to walk her way.

Bethesda is trash, but the Skyrim Special Edition (which is essentially what this is) was in fact a free upgrade for PC users, this is only marginally more generous in that in the case of Skyrim, you did have to own the DLC to qualify.

And not even then. Look at a map: there was never even the remotest shadow of a chance that Japan could hope to stage an actual invasion of the mainland United States. Zero. Even setting aside the obvious disparities in population, and ignoring how intensely resource-poor Japan was/is in terms of iron, fossil fuels,…

Glad I’m old and won’t be here that much longer.

I actually just had to send some (bog standard) corporate records to the State Dept’s Office of Authentications for apostilles, and it took them so fucking long to get them back to me that I was forced to draft a letter to one of our Senators begging him to intercede, just to get the execs off my ass. They finally arri…

Other than when I was studying abroad, I honestly don’t believe I’ve gone a full week at any point in my life past about age 3 without having it.  It does major double duty in being both a meal staple AND a core ingredient of a huge proportion of my favorite desserts. I mean, even if one believes Americans are…

I’ve found that a lot of foreigners are not down with peanut butter, which seems bizarre to me, but there it is. Maybe the consistency of it?

Having had my Maltese killed several years ago, on my mom’s front lawn and right in front of her eyes, by the POS neighbors’ POS unsupervised, free-roaming German Shepherd, anyone who wants to pretend that all dogs are inherently wonderful and shouldn’t ever be discriminated against, blah blah blah, can stow that shit,…

I sympathize with your grandfather entirely; the accursed and incompetent government of my (very northern) city put on a Keystone Kops-level display of imbecility for most of last winter with their snow removal efforts. Their favorite trick is to wait at least a full week after a large snowfall, after the snow has…

That’s funny, when I went to let my dog out in the backyard this morning, I saw a robin through the door glass pulling a worm out of the ground, maybe ten feet away. As soon as I opened the door and stepped out with her, it flew off, and suddenly something on the order of one hundred other robins all immediately…

I spent big bucks a few years ago building a monster PC, which is still plenty viable for any current game, but I find I still spend at least 95% of my gaming time on my PS4 (honestly, the only PC game I play regularly at this point is Civ VI). For a small sacrifice in visuals (and that’s all it is to me, at least PS…

Say what?

I was sure this was going to end with you buying a cheap pole barn kit and just pushing them all inside.  

I imagine that setup is a big reason why Michigan has, hands down, the worst roads in the United States. I say this is a resident of a northern MN city with miles of “mid-90s Grozny”-quality roads. The. Worst.

LOL, meanwhile, here are some cops with functional testicles and brainstems arresting a distraught machete-wielding man without even possessing firearms, let alone using them.

Erowid. Not quite as easy as MJ, but hardly rocket surgery.  

You know, back when I lived in So. Africa during his administration, I never really considered that Thabo “HIV doesn’t cause AIDS” Mbeki’s approach to public health would eventually become the standard template approach for leaders from several of the world’s foremost democracies, but here we are...

LOL, an oblivious “not even a right winger” moron with a screen name devoted, at least tangentially, to the guy who wrote and published The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem is here to tell us all about keeping politics out of motorsport, everyone! Listen up, Gen Z moppets, this is sure to be some…