gdp's Comments

http://www.antoniolombatti.it/ : Post

Thu, 16 Jul 2015 13:09:54 +0000

I'm no specialist either but I'd really like to see a drawing of the images on the stele *and* those on the obelisk. I'm not even sure that the headless human is anything of the sort: turn him around 90 deg. and he resembles the odd animals above. I'll wait for the full publication, I guess.

http://www.antoniolombatti.it/ : Post

Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:45:41 +0000

It's a very nice tin anyway, if not quite worth Euro 99. I think the seller should cancel the 12 Euro shipping charge though: it should be able to deliver itself.

Heresy Corner : Yes but... the Niqab debate

Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:27:05 +0000

Yes, but ....but me no buts: it should be No.

Heresy Corner : Breast is best

Thu, 4 Jul 2013 20:23:36 +0000

Sorry Heresiarch but it does reek of milking women. Imagine, on the other hand, if it were about milking men of their white stuff.... No, I'm not going to go there. Too much yucky factor.

Heresy Corner : How Implementing Leveson threatens religious freedom

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:06:19 +0000

Since the devil quotes scripture, I'll cite Exodus 21:20-21 NAB: 'When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod so hard that the slave dies under his hand, he shall be punished. If, however, the slave survives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his own property.' I don't think you've thought this through, Philip.

Heresy Corner : Ratzinger: the grinch who stole Christmas

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:10:27 +0000

All about the Magi and the Star of Bethlehem (on which Papa B is out of date, by the way): http://judithweingarten.blogspot.it/2007/12/magi-... Christmas posts are getting earlier every year, it seems....

Past Horizons : Help save the cultural heritage of Afghanistan

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:27:55 +0000

A former student of Llewelyn Morgan (who wrote the excellent *Buddhas of Bamiyan*) is advising firms prospecting around Kabul. He told Llewelyn that something he wrote a while back -- to the effect that if you scratch the ground in Afghanistan you either find archaeological or mineral treasures -- is in his experience the literal truth, since wherever his people looked they found Buddhist material. This is certainly going to be an ongoing problem.

Heresy Corner : How Assange might escape

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:47:43 +0000

Dear Woolly-Minded, Not "scare quotes" (as in shock, horror, fright) but quotation marks (as in I am quoting his own phrase). I do think Mr Green's opinion was rather quickly taken up by some even though it's not the only possible interpretation of law; far from it. Citing him again does not an irrefutable argument make....

Heresy Corner : How Assange might escape

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:38:00 +0000

A little late but still well worth reading if anyone really believes that Mr Green is the sole voice of the law and 'zombie facts' decider: http://pastehtml.com/view/c91yw7wjy.html

Heresy Corner : How Assange might escape

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:26:03 +0000

New Statesman: "It is important to remember that complainants of rape and sexual assault have rights too, even when the suspect is Julian Assange." I see you and raise you: http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/suspicious.pdf

Heresy Corner : How Assange might escape

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:37:22 +0000

Apologies for an early morning conflation of artist and activist. I understand that Assange is wanted for *questioning* by the Swedish police in regard to two claims of rape. He hasn't been charged yet with anything, let alone convicted. Hence his offer (again) to be questioned in the UK, this time inside the embassy. If he's thereafter actually charged with rape -- or refusing to use a condom when so requested -- I imagine that would be a game changer.

Heresy Corner : How Assange might escape

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:06:00 +0000

Neither an Assange groupie nor entirely rabid, but it was a bit tongue-in-cheek. Still, the Tories are being nasty here: or do you think diplomatic immunity and sanctuary as outdated as (say) trial by jury? I imagine the Chinese felt just as frustrated when that blind artist climbed into the American embassy and they couldn't get their hands on him. But we liked him, didn't we.

Heresy Corner : How Assange might escape

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:08:15 +0000

Could we be a bit more serious in that the 'threat' to invade an embassy, however tiny an apartment, is not a precedent the Brits should set. And you know, now that the threat's been made, there is a precedent that other regimes, even nastier than the Tories, will be tempted to follow. Incredibly stupid (imho).

Heresy Corner : The French take genital mutilation seriously. But then they also ban burqas

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 07:56:42 +0000

Having only seen but never had this organ, perhaps I can better liken male mutilation to docking a puppy's tail -- as opposed to amputating most of the tail of a growing female dog (or bitch, if you prefer). Admittedly I'm not a quadruped either so perhaps am unqualified to judge.

Heresy Corner : The French take genital mutilation seriously. But then they also ban burqas

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:21:11 +0000

If little boys had as much removed as little girls have in FGM, I dare say the practice would be banned and enforced from tomorrow on. Which reminds me of the poster in New York many years ago:"If men got pregnant, abortion would be legal, moral, and federally funded." Now, imagine that they cut off a good part of your willy....

http://www.antoniolombatti.it/ : Post

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:06:08 +0000

They also had a large lake that seems to have watered the oasis. You can see the basin clearly from the road as you approach the city. Also, there are still channels of water 'in the desert' some distance from town. Now the water is salty, but then? This is hardly a discovery. Now the water is salty, but then? This is hardly a discovery; fairly obvious, I would say.

Heresy Corner : Total war on crime means total war on privacy

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:03:36 +0000

When I lived for some time in Syria in the 90s, every single fax in and out of the country went through Damascus security police HQ as did every international letter. So it's really an old idea. Nice that we're catching up with the Syria of papa Assad. I suppose we'll get used to it.

EconoMonitor : Today Germany Is the Big Loser, Not Greece

Tue, 22 May 2012 06:23:56 +0000

You wrote, "In the period before the euro, they would devalue the Deutschmark so that they could increase the sales of their products to their neighbors." Chapter and verse, please. As I recall, from a currency linked to the DM (the guilder), they only went up, taking the florin with them. Also, don't forget that France and Britain, too, were chronic devaluators. In that sense you're right: the Euro has been a win-win for Germany; for NL perhaps not so much.

Past Horizons : How Roman women got around the banking system

Mon, 7 May 2012 18:02:40 +0000

More on this at http://judithweingarten.blogspot.it/2012/05/roman...

Heresy Corner : Bearded

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:57:27 +0000

I'm in All In A Don's Day too! with an incredibly pretentious comment on her post 'From el-Bulli to Apicius'. Page 199. Truly, I'm in awe of her blog, running for six years now, twice a week "rain or shine", as she says. I have a hard time posting on mine two to three times a month; even a bit behind you, Heresiarch.