The European languages with a few exceptions (Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian) belong to the Indo-European family and share a common source. We know this by comparing vocabularies. If two languages have enough words in common we say that they’re “related.” Indo-European includes languages found in Asia (Persian, Kurdish, Hindi/Urdu, Armenian, etc.), mainly the India/Iran/Afghanistan area. [...]
The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters
By Richard Bernstein
336 pp. Knopf 2009
It’s no secret that Asian women and white men seem to have a good deal of mutual attraction to one another. Richard Bernstein, a Jew married to an Asian woman, tries to put this into a historical context. Reading his [...]
A reader sent me this article from the LA Times.
After decades of exposure to all of those stereotypes — the Aunt Jemimas and the gangsta rappers, the Willie Hortons and TV drug dealers — this just wasn’t supposed to be happening.
The test results baffled Florida State University psychologist Ashby Plant. She checked and [...]
When anti-globalists talk about the international elite’s desire for a homogenized humanity, it’s hard to exaggerate how exact their vision of utopia is. Earlier this year, the human rights community was up in arms about Russia’s refusal to bow to the gay agenda. Were the authorities breaking into people’s bedrooms? Banning homosexuals from certain professions? [...]
CNN’s rating dropped in the second quarter of 2009. Fox is number one in cable news.
Fox News…maintained its winning ways — rocketing up 34% to 2.1 million viewers in prime time…
Fox News competitor CNN went in the other direction in prime time in the second quarter — down 10% to 863,000 overall viewers and [...]
Remember No Child Left Behind? That was all about investment, holding people accountable and closing the achievement gap. It even had bipartisan support. What are they going to do now that’s different? It’s fun how everything gets shoved down the memory whole every couple of years as politicians go around saying [...]
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