The Watcher’s Council selected these best posts from among those nominated for the week ending November 24. Guns, Germs and Moonbats at the Weblog Award nominated Right Wing Nut House won in the Council category. It got my vote, and as I noted when I …

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what we consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around…  though I don’t actually vote unless there happens…

The winning entries in the Watcher’s Council vote for this week are Guns, Germs, and Moonbats by Right Wing Nut House, and The New York Times on Iraq, 1993-2005 by American Future.  Here are the full results of the vote….

“This is true not only of recent history with Europeans subjugating North and South America, but also of the most ancient histories of which we are aware. The Celtic people who colonized much of Europe did not enounter pristine wilderness untouched by the hand of man. They overran much of continental Europe 500 years before the birth of Christ, enjoying the distinction of sacking both Rome and Delphi. And the remnants of their culture was eliminated over the years by a host of conquerers including the Romans and the Saxons.

I daresay there aren’t too many lefties agitating for the return of Ireland and England to the descendants of the Druids.”

Ireland and England were rapidly (historically speaking) converted to Orthodox Christianity. There is credible evidence of trade routes to/from Roman Palestine to Ireland. One may conclude Christianity was brought to Ireland along with other trade goods. Missionary journeys by Aidan and Ninian to the areas of Northumberland and Pictish regions in Alba also suggest a prosperous growth of Orthodox Christianity well before Augustine arrived.

The Druids, as a religous force, were soon relegated to the early ‘Loony Left’.

A well-known geographic feature of the human psyche — the river De-Nial.

One aspect of the Americas which differentiated it from Eurasia/Africa is the lack of readily domesticable animals. The Americas simply lacked creatures like Oxen, Horses, and Chickens which were well-suited towards taming and domesticating for their byproducts and utility.

Now, this may well simply be an accident of history and geography, but, one thing that has been noted is the fact of substantial species extinctions which occurred simultaneous with the arrival of the first of the New World humans. There are some animals to be found among those extinctions which certainly were in the same class as the Ox, the Horse, and the Chicken… (Mind you, like Bison, they may well have been equally difficult to domesticate) — said extinctions certainly *may* have laid the groundwork for the end result, with Europe far beyond the Native Amerinds but not sufficiently rich or culturally sensitive to be above strict enaction of the Law of the Jungle as we are today.

Idiots like Jensen always try to hold others by the same standards as we use today, in a much richer and prosperous time. A shame we can’t send them back in time to try and convince said others of the “rightness” of their presumptions for themselves.

The weekly selection of the most linkworthy posts on the Internet is complete and the Watcher’s Council has spoken. Here’s the results.