1. Indirectly and somewhat unnoticed, behind our daily debates a fundamental controversy about the necessary and legitimate role of the state is being waged. Alas, this is not done consciously in the pursuit of the primary task of finding those definitions that are needed for principled action. Short-term issues are embedded in the debate that is in about remote causes and effects. Actually the exchange appears to be about the here and the now. In fact, however, the controversy over the policies of redistribution and the goal to achieve “equality” through state-imposed quotas, involve a fundamental of the democratic state.Yoghurt and the Indo-Europeans
Restoring Stalin’s Reputation
Saturday, 20 March 2010
From the desk of Fjordman on Sat, 2010-03-20 12:50
My essay on lactose tolerance and its relationship to the Indo-European expansion triggered some discussion. As I mentioned in my previous history of beer, according to authors J. P. Mallory and D. Q. Adams the Proto-Indo-European lexicon which has been carefully reconstructed by European scholars through generations of comparative linguistics contains words which indicate a diet that included meat, salt, dairy products and the consumption of alcoholic beverages such as beer, mead and possibly wine. The word for “honey” is of particular interest as both the Chinese and the Uralic words for “honey” appear to be loanwords from Indo-European. Although sheep and goats can be milked, the abundance of terms for milk products in the proto-lexicon suggests the more intensive exploitation of cattle for milk, yet it has so far proved difficult to establish exactly when milking began in Eurasia:
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From the desk of George Handlery on Sat, 2010-03-20 10:42
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