http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/08/02/guns-germs-and-idiots Comments On: Guns, Germs and Idiots by Goldy en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 14:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss who wants to be the most powerful man in the world to grasp details and comprehend nuance, and in the real world, as opposed to the Hollywood logic that it's so easy to slip into in America, that shit matters a lot. It's the difference between Reaganomics and the prosperity of the Clinton years.
Posted by balderdash]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:41:26 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Park]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2012 01:31:29 -0700 The Stranger
@14, if you actually believe "several sentences" is enough to "dispatch" a hefty and meticulously scholarly work like Guns, Germs and Steel you are an intellectual featherweight. There is legitimate scholarly disagreement with Diamond's work, but it does not take place in the space of a paragraph, no more than "If humans evolved from apes why are there still apes?" is a meaningful critique in a discussion of evolutionary theory.
Posted by balderdash]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:42:25 -0700 The Stranger Posted by sarah70]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:09:10 -0700 The Stranger
Diamond, for his flaws, acknowledges history is a continuum. Jacobs seems to believe human achievement stopped at the end of the Roman Empire and began again during the Renaissance. And her bullet points, while I'm sure make great pithy cocktail chatter for those that don't know any better, are hopelessly vague prescriptions for problems she doesn't even bother to diagnose.
Posted by johnjjeeves]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:04:17 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Tommy Williams]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:52:54 -0700 The Stranger Dark Age Ahead (a short and recommended read).

While I agree Romney is a moron, he probably thought he could get away with mentioning Diamond's book as Diamond does those intros for hedge fundsters' books, etc.

Both Romney, and Diamond, are idiots!
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Each of these share that unique characteristic...the deeply buried software ore!
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:48:40 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Ziggity]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:59:28 -0700 The Stranger The biggest jaw-dropper would be the fact that Jesus was a middle eastern man... swarthy, dark/olive-skinned, etc. and not the whitebread anglo-saxon all modern christians picture in their heads.
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These people are tone deaf and unable to tell a complete story.
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