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Burt Likko
Pseudonymous Portlander. Pursuer of happiness. Bon vivant. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Ordinary Times. Relapsed Lawyer, admitted to practice law (under his real name) in California and Oregon. There's a Twitter account at @burtlikko, but not used for posting on the general feed anymore. House Likko's Words: Scite Verum. Colite Iusticia. Vivere Con Gaudium.
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on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassThe "follows" is going to be interesting. I just watched a video on the denaz.ification of Germany.…
on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassJohn Ganz has a good look at the complicated history of the Mizrahi in Israel: https://www.unpopular… on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassIsrael lay siege to a hospital for weeks. That was reported with no mention of who they were fightin… on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassAgain, lets look at the fact that multiple things can be true and that motivated reasoning tends to…
on Free Speech, But No Freedom to HarassThis is just the same argument both sides have repeated endlessly. "Look at our oppression! Behold o… on The Shifting Politics of AbortionAll laws are by necessity vague statements intended to be clarified by bureaucratic rule or court op…
on The Shifting Politics of AbortionWhen it comes to abortion, I understand the sentiment that says that it should be avoided. But that…
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They all play football/soccer.Report
Nations which did not exist in their current form in 5000 BC.Report
Distance of their capital cities from El Paso is less than the distance between the Earth and the moon?Report
Just a minor quibble. Northern Cyprus isn’t a recognized UN member-state.Report
Then let it be stricken from the question! (Thank you for the corrective quibble. Good to see you.)Report
You and your outrageous anti-Muslim bias!Report
On that note, neither is Palestine. It’s classified as a non-member observer state.Report
Eh? I could have sworn I saw Palestine in there. Was it edited out, or did I misread Pakistan?Report
You must have misread Pakistan. Palestine would not be on the list even if it enjoyed full UN membership.Report
Brandon cleverly elicits a hint.Report
Also vague guess: Has something to do with Rugby?Report
I think it has to be something sport related. The range of countries is too vast for anything real. You have hot and cold countries, warm and wet countries, new and old countries, big and small countries. No clear religious connection.
So, yea, something sports or something quirky, like more men than woman in the population.Report
Countries which have never contained my kitchen.Report
Here’s your Tuesday hint: if the nations were to be listed in chronological order rather than alphabetically, the list would be Sri Lanka (it was called Ceylon back then), India, Israel, Central African Republic, United Kingdom, Portugal, Dominica, Norway, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Bangladesh, France, Poland, Turkey, Canada, Burundi, Rwanda, Pakistan, Haiti, Guyana, New Zealand, Senegal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Finland, Mozambique, Ukraine, Germany, Jamaica, South Korea, Moldova, Iceland, Croatia, Trinidad and Tobago, Australia, Slovakia, Mali, Thailand, Denmark.Report
Sri Lanka (it was called Ceylon back then)
Countries named after Commodores songs (or was that purely serendipitous?)Report
I assume that the event that triggered eligibility for this list for Yugoslavia happened specifically in Slovenia between 1929 and 1991.Report
Ugh. I missed that Croatia was on the list. Either way, I’m pretty sure I have the answer:
Appointment or election of female prime ministers.Report
Helle, I think you got it.Report
This is the correct answer. My formulation of it was “a female head of government,” but it’s effectively the same thing since every one of the women in question was a Prime Minister (that’s full PM, not “acting” or “effective”) other than Angela Merkl, and my understanding of the German system of government is that the Chancellor is more like a Prime Minister than a U.S. President anyway. Turns out, most countries that have Presidents name them heads of state, rather than heads of government, so they do ceremonial things and exercise comparatively little power.
As for countries with both female heads of state and female heads of government, I suspect that would be the UK and the Commonwealth nations from the above list — Sri Lanka, Jamaica, India, Bangladesh, UK, Canada, Pakistan, Australia, Trinidad, and Rwanda, since each of them had a female PM at the same time Elizabeth II Windsor has sat as sovereign.Report
Something you need to be careful with on that score Burt is that not all Commonwealth countries have the Queen as their head of State. I’m pretty sure India doesn’t for one thing.Report