Eight months or so on, and it still looks like genocide to me.
The Cranky Linguist
Observations, thoughts, reminiscences, and occasional rants on anthropology, linguistics, old-time banjo, and anything else that crosses my path...
Monday, June 17, 2024
Friday, October 27, 2023
Word of the day
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Invasive species...
I never caught the story, but last week on the CNN news crawl the theme of the global cost of "invasive species" showed up a number of times.
No mention that I saw included Humans, and yet Homo sapiens is invasive everywhere outside of Africa.
Ad don't even think about the cost to the world of that species' invasions...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
A couple of thoughts...
Tommy 🥔ville wants the military to bend to his personal fantasies about the world. But in the past, the military has sometimes led the way in establishing rights that "society" has tried to withhold. Access to health care is a human right, not subject to whatever he thinks his imaginary friends want.
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Asa Hutchinson says that women's reproductive health access should be up to each state. I call Bullshit. This is a human rights issue, and not up to the whims of Alabama or Mississippi. Or Iowa.
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Neandertals, again...
OK, so it has been a while. I'm trying to gear up for more writing here. Meanwhile I posted this on Facebook this morning, edited a bit:
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
"Neandertal" republicans
Last night (May10) on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, law professor Lawrence Tribe described republican efforts to drag women back to pre-Roe days as "Neandertal." I just want to go on record as saying that the Neandertals were very likely nowhere near as misogynistic as these thugs.
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Guest blog: On Whoopi Goldberg and the "race" thing
My Anthropology colleague Daniel Cring posted this on Facebook a couple days ago and I thought it best go up here as well.
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Whoopi Goldberg:
Still the word of the day
Eight months or so on, and it still looks like genocide to me.
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I only have time for a short note, but I need to get this unbottled. I am becoming ever more disappointed, frustrated, even angered by the...
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I may write more about this later, but for now just examine the differences. Later... (added on Oct 9, 2010): Essentially, in apes the l...
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OK, somebody has to say it. 17 years ago close to 3,000 people died largely because the US was unprepared for an attack of that kind, or for...