Recent content by Namehere

In my country it is presently legal for a battered wife to kill her husband at any time in any convenient manner. I'm not kidding. A battered man does not have this luxury. It has been suggested, printed in opinion pieces, that women no longer be charged with murdering their spouses because the...

I'm unaware of NOW. I'm also not sure that you should expect support from the likes of Conservative media pundits, at least not in the US. They're all about small government and reducing social programs, across the board. They don't appear to particularly care if they're cuts hurt one or another...

Republicans/Conservatives don't actually oppose feminism... I mean, they don't. The Duluth Model is law. Even in Republican and Conservative areas. They may not walk in lock step with it, but they certainly don't oppose it. During Canada's Parliamentary debates over how to handle prostitution...

It's a complicated issue. As you yourself said there was no political will to assist your efforts. That's a major problem. And it isn't the fault of MRAs. Surely you wouldn't have held yourself accountable for a lack of political action from your local representatives while an MRA, so you can't...

The situation you describe as an example is far from the reality of what occurred. In fact she got money originally from feminist sources who assumed she'd make a hit piece, they withdrew that funding when they found out it wasn't one. And then she crowd funded. In essence the feminist...

I've been watching a lot of science videos on Youtube - PBS Space Time and in this case Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell. One of the Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell video's was about something called the Holocene Calendar, by essentially adding ten thousand years to the current calendar. I found the...

Rome bares no relation to the armies of Europe. If it did they'd have utilised more infantry tactics and less cavalry. The Roman 'cavalry' were 'auxiliary' troops, graduates of the armed forces generally given land and levied when the army was operational around them. They were free men, Romans...

Horses have seldom been the property of those who ride them. European armies are not the wild west. A mounted knight travels with a retinue. That retinue is mounted. Cavalry ride the Crown's horses, not their own. In many periods many men rode other men's horses. Fought wars started by other...

Traditionally in European warfare horses were more valuable then the people who rode them. In general every effort was made to preserve the horses of friend and enemy alike. A war trained animal is just that and has an intrinsic value to military organisations. There were exceptions, a clash...

That isn't how it works in Canada, at least not when I was called up. Unless it was a long trial, designated by days with pay starting at the 7th - I believe - you were pretty well on your own. That included buying your own lunch and providing for your own transportation. Not a big deal for some...

You know... that could very well be it. One of the things I said was: "Shame they killed off Harrison Ford's character, now they're out both of them." Not exactly tactful but a serious hint of why it hits like that. And I brought it up that way to bring it up without being depressing or morbid...

Oddly, as celebrity deaths don't on average effect me, I truly feel unhappy about this. My sympathy to fans friends and family.

Due to my economic status I was permitted to skip jury duty. And by that I don't mean rich. The rich are likely screwed unless their job is exceptionally time sensitive. But if you're being on a jury runs a strong chance, or even a reasonable one I suppose, of denying you your livelihood the...

Happy holidays and a happy new year, to one and all.

Yea... Gonna have to second Hawki's questioning of Picard in 'badassery' territory. I never really got the 'badass' feel from Picard. That was more the Kirk school of command. And he was so badass it was cheese we've all come to love with two fisted hammer blows representing the epitome of human...