The Post-Partisan Emporium

  How Christianity rebooted cognitive evolution The aftermath of a collapse Peter Frost Portrait of Augustine, 6th century fresco Mean cognitive ability fell under Imperial Rome but rose again as the Empire became Christian. Cognitive ability is the capacity to process information, recognize patterns, and solve problems. It initially served to meet the challenges of hunting and gathering – a way of life that, by 30,000 years ago, spanned the full range of natural environments from the equator to the Arctic. Colder environments presented a greater number of cognitive challenges, as shown by the inverse correlation between temperature and technological complexity among present-day hunter-gatherer groups (Hoffecker, 2002, p. 10, Figure 1.5). The coldest and most challenging environments existed during the last ice age, and covered northern Eurasia until about 12,000 years ago. Food was potentially abundant but made up largely of “meat on the hoof” – large herds of wandering reindeer a...

  MAGA in One Step By  Karen Kwiatkowski ok ocracy and elections.  It’s about getting something for nothing, always and necessarily from someone else’s pot. Electing an executive, who in turn spends trillions of borrowed and stolen money every year – mainly to buy the next election, enrich themselves and their allies, always unaccountable, always unauditable, always failing to deliver more freedom and more prosperity – why, that how it works, isn’t it? H.L. Mencken was correct in his assessment of democracy and elections.  It’s about getting something for nothing, always and necessarily from someone else’s pot. Electing an executive, who in turn spends trillions of borrowed and stolen money every year – mainly to buy the next election, enrich themselves and their allies, always unaccountable, always unauditable, always failing to deliver more freedom and more prosperity – why, that how it works, isn’t it? Trump, with no third term to game, and with a new and extraord...

  Liberal Cat Ladies Reveal "Battle Plan" To Poison Trump Men With Aqua Tofana by Tyler Durden Educated white liberal women appear to have lost their goddamn minds after the presidential election. Many have posted videos of  uncontrollable emotional outbursts  over a Trump victory... ... with some even threatening to  adopt pro-life stances  as a form of retaliation against men. Others have made what appears to be terroristic threats, suggesting at the use of strong poison against men because they voted for the evil 'Orange Man.'  Internet searches for Aqua Tofana—a potent poison created in Sicily around 1630 by a woman named Giulia Tofana, or Tofania, and historically used by women to free themselves from relationships by killing men—spiked shortly after the election results. Searches for "Aqua Tofana recipe" surged.  And how to make the poison.  The first search result on Google for "Aqua Tofana recipe" came up with a video o...