Who Were the Sea Peoples?

My fellow Americans, it is fine to use "Wall Street" as a synechdoche for "the financial industry." No one is offended. But when you say "England" but really mean "the United Kingdom," the Welsh, Scottish and (northern) Irish do find it a bit disturbing. OK?

When Jefferson left Washington after Madison's inauguration, he was never to return, despite living another 17 plus years only a few score miles from the capital?

I was walking behind a chap doing some serious sagging , not the half-assed style the white boys try, but with his pants' waist at the top of his thighs. Because I was behind him for half a block, I had a chance to notice how bow-legged he had to walk to keep his sag from being ankle height. My prediction: in forty years, we'll see a spate of knee and hip problems amongst former saggers.

Acquired traits can be passed on , in some cases. More and more examples of this have been found recently.

And thus it is a terrible confusion to imagine that accepting the existence of the state necessitates a moral double standard. (Someone like Machiavelli posited one, sure, but it isn't necessary to do so!) Anarchists sometimes say things like, "The state's agents are allowed to collect taxes, while you would be arrested for doing the same: therefore,, there must be two different moralities at work." Well, so what? Pilots are allowed to fly commercial airliners while I am not. Professional baseball players are allowed to play at Yankee Stadium but not me. My doctor operates on me but not I on him. The priest hears my sins but I do not hear his. When I was a child, my father could send me to my room, but the stranger across the street could not do so. These are roles in the social division of labor. If the law says, "Joe Smith may collect taxes for himself, but Gene Callahan may not," there would be something fishy going on. But that is not what happen...