Well, yes and no. I'm one of that group of post-2015 members -- but I'd been consistently voting LD for 20 years before that. The post-2015 events were just the trigger for me to actually g… (View Post)

If you are in the mood for some long blog posts on that topic by a Roman military historian, I can recommend Bret Devereaux's just finished 5-part series of posts on Roman identity and diversity… (View Post)

The stuff I see on youtube is on the "let's not go back [to lockdowns]" theme, basically "vaccination is the way to get back to fun stuff like festivals and what-have-you. Not ver… (View Post)

My impression was that Bujold was using the setup as a way of making some feminist points as much as anything else (eg the hero is shocked at the idea that women would be doing childcare unpaid and u… (View Post)

Yes, I agree the southern route is the best option available and if they went north there'd be a bunch of practical disadvantages and merely a different set of villagers who'd rather not be… (View Post)