Author: Ned Dymoke / Source: Big Think While a few of the laws on this list are holdovers from long ago, some laws are as recent as 2011. While marrying a dead person or handling salmon suspiciously might sound morbid or hilarious, these laws have historical context. Some of today’s laws might

Authored by Robert Gore via Straight Line Logic blog, Disarmed and docile Europeans pose no meaningful threat to their governments’ depredations. All sorts of reasons have been advanced for declining birthrates. SLL spotlights Europe as an advanced case and offers a hypothesis: its testicles

"Thirty glorious years" In the immediate post-war years France was in a bad way;<ref name=Macksey/> wages remained at around half prewar levels, the winter of 1946–1947 did extensive damage to crops—leading to a reduction in the bread ration, hunger and disease remained rife and the black