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You would think that San Diego, where I live, would have little problem getting direct flights (there are 6 million people in the metropolitan area), but LA is too close so to get a great many of the long hauls you have to take a puddle-jumper to LAX.

Living DNA contacted me and said they had updated my results. They are now better than before, so we got that going for us. Then I was about 70/30 English/German. It now shows more accurately: Europe (North and West) 56.5% - South Germanic 36.1% - Northeast Germanic 13.8% - Northwest Germanic...

Slow down, I'm trying to get this down* . . . : ). * I think this is a Doonesbury reference

One of the great things about being a parent is being able to relive those great films through your children. It's a wonderful excuse to see the world through a child's eyes. Even now, on the rare occasion, long after the children are grown, my wife and I will pull out a Disney feature, Beauty &...

Oh yeah? I can't talk about what's going on in Europe, maybe everything there is good, I sincerely hope so, but in the US the left is using Middle East politics and what they perceive to be the prejudices of our Muslim communities as an excuse to express some rather ugly things about Jews. As...

Ah, but Leontyne Price!

I'm sorry, what did you say? I wasn't listening . . .

I understand how that could be frustrating. It's not unlike criticizing the mismanagement of a sub-Saharan government and being told "you can't say that, it's racist!"

Do I consider hate for Jews to be anti-Semitism? Well, yeah. What do you want to call it? Hatred for Israel is not necessarily anti-Semitism, but it often is. There are reasons to dislike and oppose the policies of any nation, but the volume of hate versus Israel (no nation has had so much...

I think we know where anti-Semitism comes from. I remember as a young child being amazed when I first learned about anti-Semitism ("Gentleman's Agreement," et al). I couldn't comprehend what it was about. My parents were by no means woke; my mother was willing, as she would say, to "jew...

Yes. The point is that the govt (and media) is willing to lie to us when it concerns a favored group. This breaks the democratic bond. All I want is to be treated as an individual who has rights no greater nor no less than any other.

Let's get back on topic. The issue is, I believe, that in the quest to avoid being racist or engendering racism (for instance, by calling South Asians/Pakistanis rapists) the government denies the truth about the specific offense that is there for everyone to see. This gives the racists, who of...

Two observations. When I was in the Navy we made a port call in Hong Kong. A buddy of mine, for some unknown reason, steered me through a local meat market and, even though this was back when the Brits were in charge, the sights were appalling. Some were simply a difference of Eastern and...

Bjornsson, Interesting. I also trace my family origins to Yorkshire (the area just east of Wakefield), though as G2a. I have long-lost cousins (found through DNA) who still live in East Yorkshire and London. Some of my family settled in Kentucky, on the Ohio river in a little town called, oddly...

Everyone needs to calm down. Assume, for a start, that people are, in the main, behaving fairly and honestly. Too many, unfortunately, post too quickly without considering how others may view their comments (I am guilty of this). If someone takes offense be willing to apologize and Move On. If...

Well, I shan't laugh too much, : ). This is much like the F-22 fighter being nicknamed the Raptor. It was a "hip" new usage that they probably thought appealed to a younger audience (well, younger than me anyway). In my day it would have been called the Hawk (Eagle and Falcon already being...

Oops, I didn't mean to post this since I decided I didn't really have anything substantive to add. However, since it's posted let me edit this to say . . . I suppose the problem is that we are all, to some extent, tribal. It's just part of our human nature to distrust those who live "other...

I guess I can disregard a Frenchman who tells me how we Americans should fix our racial problems . . . Of course, as you alluded, the question is, what does this survey measure, racial tolerance or the freedom to express what you really feel about race?

I don't know what's true or not about this issue. I expect I must believe the "experts," but their warnings are undercut by the hypocrisy of their supporters in Hollywood and at Windsor. It doesn't help the cause to have the Prince of Wales tell us to live a simpler life in order to save the...

My favorite of Shakespeare's are his history plays, Richard III being the prime example. Henry IV, however, is a little difficult because I don't "get" the comedy of Falstaff.