The Kalash: myth vs genetics

Everyone except UMassD prof Brian Glyn Williams, the Huffington Post and Greek nationalists has known for more than a decade that there’s no way they were left behind by Alexander. No great loss: it was always a pretty unimaginative story, and what actually may have happened (via) is quite extraordinary. Don’t get me wrong: I…

E-commerce fack-up

Cart logic: Total price < 150€: you can have your paint delivered to you; you pay extra. Total price > 150€: you can have your paint delivered to you, free; unfortunately the only delivery option (Formas de Entrega) is to pick stuff up in the shop. If I point this out to them, do you…

Libertarian literary translation question

A reader writes: I have found an excellent novel in Spanish by a long-dead author who is still just in copyright. He was already forgotten when he died, and has remained so. I’d like to translate and self-publish it. How much should I offer the rights-holders?

CiU, brazen arsebandits

I did not their logo design. I loved the sodomite rhyming war started by Alfonso Novo against his Valencian mayoress, Rita Barberá: Elsewhere: Cinco, por el culo te la hinco y a tu madre me la trinco de un brinco y como rima me tiro a tu prima y como sigue rimando me la sigo…

Strength to sweetness

“Lions Bible”, from 1804: 1 Kings 8:19 reads “thy son that shall come forth out of thy lions”, rather than “loins”. What would the world have been like had the Lyle’s Golden Syrup tin borne a picture of the rotting carcass of some loins with a swarm of bees? (Via a lovely guy who seems…