Archive for August 31, 2005
Gays Finally to Blame
We've been waiting days for someone — finally! — to blame gay people for the current disaster in New Orleans. At last, it has come to pass. You can tell, though, that no one was rushing into the breach. Perhaps Pat Robertson still felt a little tender from being beaten up over his hysterical idea [...]
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I can always count on Elayne Riggs to point the way to curious, informative, and entertaining reading on the Web. I don't know how she manages to keep an eye on all her sources, but I'm grateful. Somehow, I managed to fall behind by a few weeks on my survey of her surveys, so I'm [...]
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Polygyny and Anteaters
Two selections from today's reading in Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2004), mostly to confound fundamentalists and creationists: The Ethnographic Atlas of G.P. Murdock, published in 1967, is a brave compilation. It lists particulars of 849 human societies, surveyed all over the world. From it we might hope to count numbers of [...]
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