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Yes, death is a creepy thing. I remember reading a report some years ago that, surprisingly, disturbed me. It was that as of some date perhaps 30 years ago, there were more dead people in the ground in the US (that is, people who've died since the first colonization) than were alive above the...

I understand what you are saying vis-à-vis Northerner, but I prefer to accept the thing as stated and move on. Your duty as a Moderator probably won't allow you to do that.

Thanks, I try. It's not much fun (arguing, disputing, having a conversation) with someone who agrees with everything you write.

I suppose if I like Sanders at all it's because he has been transparent, expressing unfiltered support for a lot of awful things I don't want to have happen to this country. But, none the less, he is honest, terrifying so. That's why he's been resonating with the left; finally, an honest...

Amoral? Well, I don't know about that, but we tried a morally-preening President with Carter and what we got was chaos and incompetence. As I remember the Europeans disliked him as much as any other of our Presidents. You just can't win I guess. I don't have to like a leader as long as he...

Mud is in the eye of the beholder; they throw mud at my candidate, we tell the truth about theirs. And yes, Bernie is doing well because he's authentic, but also because he stands for something. It's not something I support, but he doesn't lie like Warren, deny or apologize for his former...

Amen to that. Life is good here, I hope it is for Northerner as well . . .

So sad, and on Valentines Day! However, I have to say I'd take a good long hug from my favorite wife over a passionate kiss. One is about initiating sex (nothing wrong with that!) or something like it, the other is about a one-to-one connection through a full body contact that makes no demands.

So will we all, if we're honest . . .

Well, my mom was a brunette with big brown eyes . . . and my wife is a brunette with big brown eyes . . . just sayin'.

I think you make an excellent point with this European example. This was the way America saw itself in 1783; a confederation of free states in which the smallest population states saw themselves as fully equal to their more populous neighbors.

The Founders studied and understood everything they could; they had a big task and took it seriously. The point was, they weren't stupid. They created the current US system out of an abundance of knowledge about past failures and successes, a system that has lasted 250 years, so far. I don't...

Yes, yes, yes. The Founders studied the history of democracy (I suspect especially that of Athens) and knew that its great weakness was the tendency to mob rule. The myriad of checks and balances they created were meant to slow things down and to make it difficult to make dramatic change (like...

I think it's enough to point out that slavery has been with us for thousands of years (probably started in the Neolithic), has been practiced by most of the cultures of this world and accepted as 'just the way things are.' And (afaik) the Brits were the first to outlaw it . . . and yet receive...

The critique has come from many sides, including supporters of the President. At the grass roots level the Saudis are not generally popular. Why would they be? As to the Uighurs, many nations have put national interest over ethics. Some nations ignore the issue because they like Chinese money...

I can't say I know what you mean, but if you're asking if we have robust debate in this country, well yeah, we do.

A nation's foreign policy is, frankly, not normally a question of ethics, it's a tool for the advancement of a nation's self interest. During the American Revolution we received, and appreciated, French support, but they didn't do it because they liked us or liked democracy, they did it (that...

Thanks. That was just the kind of explanation I was looking for (it's the reason I come to this site).

So, do you consider 7 to be a close match, or is that rather middling? I always thought of myself as English/Dutch/German (predominantly northern Germany), the standard early American mix. My closest ancient populations seem to support that, 1. Saxon Hinxton (720 AD) (5.171) 2. Colonial...

I had my LivingDNA results updated recently and I find them more accurate now. Less English and more German than before, as it should be based on the last 10 generations. They also added some northern Ireland & southwest Scotland that I felt was missing before. The results, however, are weighted...