She has a face?

Plus there are a tonne of organisations that are required to advertise the position even if they already know who they're hiring. It happens in government jobs all the time

Timgad, in Algeria

They're talking specifically about mass shootings. Which the thing in Australia wasn't.

Right, we're also the only species with healthcare and education and emergency services

The Bush Gene

"Now with more chloroform"

Thanks. My parents were more "this is what WE believe," but there, "we" meant the whole family. As in, therefore this is what you believe. I prefer your approach :)

When you say "what we believe," who's we?

> Progressive means liberal means socialist
Pretty sophisticated understanding of politics and philosophy you've got there

I slept through all the action. Pebble, with respect, the church's corruption and violence are a different story. A very high proportion of the greatest scientists were trying to find ways to prove and exalt the Christian god - Newton foremost among them. This idea that the church is anti-science is only 200 years old; before that, if you wanted science it was the church you went to. It's a poorly understood subject, unfortunately. The Vatican accepted the big bang and evolution long ago.
You might be thinking of Galileo, by the way, and his arrest had more to do with the way he treated the pope than it did his science.

Although it has been at the forefront of science for most of the last 2,000 years

It's not exactly known for promoting progressive attitudes

Actually I'm guessing it's an annual thing, looking at those dates

3 months back: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/15/obama-honors-fallen-officers-at-memorial-service/

Ashley Madison security

I don't have sources atm but I heard a lecture series recently about the development of the language that was full of examples of the way particularly vowels have changed over time. From memory Shakespeare was before The Great Vowel Shift and sounded more like modern Gaelic than either English or American. If you want to keep reading, start with the Great Vowel Shift, I reckon. It's interesting stuff.