The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Andrew Pontious:

What bugs me, what makes me despair, is that the GOP has been doing this for years and years and years, and yet no elected Dems seem to get it.

Edwards, who I am currently favoring, never did come up with a good narrative against Coulter's attacks.

Al Gore's book, The Assault on Reason, is one long litany of complaints against the Bush regime and the media, but it seems to be premised on the idea that talking about the whole sorry affair politely is going to get us somewhere.

It has, in fact, gotten us here.

I think the reason why Guns, Germs, and Steel regarded this progression as deterministic has to do with the following:

"...the New World had fewer animal candidates for taming than the Old...."

If I remember correctly, GG&S said this was because the humans who invaded the Americas killed all the large animals that could have been domesticated. The only place such animals could survive to be domesticated was where they evolved with humanity, in Africa. Every other continent where humans arrived on the scene later was at a massive disadvantage, comparatively.

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