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This map does surprise me. I well remember the racial violence in America during the '60s and all the lectures we received from the Europeans about our failure to achieve racial harmony. It was especially galling to listen to Swedes, who at that time lived in a mono-culture of blue eyed blonds...

We're now working through A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; it has a lovely Christmas scene. The young girl that stars here is also in my favorite version of Jane Eyre, the one with Orson Welles. \ The final movie will probably be A Christmas Story unless we see the George C. Scott version of A...

I don't so much dislike the witty dialogue in The Lion In Winter as that it's too stagey . . . no one is that on point all the time. The brilliance of it, its unnaturalness, takes me out of moment. It's rather like in The Silence of the Lambs when Anthony Hopkins calls the wine Kee-anti. What...

Last night my wife and I watched another Christmas movie, The Lion In Winter. Not a feel good movie, but it occurs during Christmas and it is full of great power and great acting (Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn). However, I abhor its too-clever dialogue and historical inaccuracies. But, you...

Yes, Good News has Peter Awful in it, but that doesn't ruin it. The plot is awful (kind of like an Astaire-Rogers movie), but the musical numbers are great, especially a number called, I think, Pass the Peace Pipe. It couldn't be staged today, but its energy is compulsive. As they say, worth a...

So, the more free an individual is to be whatever they want to be, the more their personality, "on average," aligns with their sex. I suppose at this point someone (me) should mention Jordan Peterson. BTW, I'm surprised there are no comments yet on the cited article. I would have thought the...

My grandfather was 5’ 6”, my father was 5’ 11”, I’m 6’ 1”, and my son is 6’ 3”; all G2a. Expect nutrition may have something to do with it.

Angela, I was sure you'd have a comment about the musical Good News . . .

Interesting. I have the same feelings about Christmas, yet I and my wife are both atheists. For us Christmas is, as with you, about love and family, but we do it without the other stuff. We come to the same beliefs, but from different directions. BTW, my wife never considered being a nun and I...

For Little Women I go with Katherine Hepburn (except for Good News, I'm not a June Allyson fan), but you're right about A Christmas Carol, Syms is the best (George C. Scott is excellent as well. I'm still on the fence about the new Patrick Stewart version.). My wife is ambivalent about Meet Me...

My wife and I start the season slow with films that are tangental to Christmas, LA Confidential and Die Hard don't make this list (a little raw for Christmas fun), but Little Women, The Thin Man, The Nun's Story, Sleepless in Seattle, Meet Me in St. Louis, and Goodbye Mr. Chips do (all have...

With something this stunning I think the best course of action is to await confirmation.

While this is getting off the point, I'm fascinated by the idealization of the mother in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. And this was a two-way street . . . Douglas MacArthur's mother took an apartment near West Point so she could look into her son's room at the Point throughout his time...

I'm old enough that I want to hear the older voices singing these Christmas songs. Also Leroy Anderson! His Sleigh Ride is infectious!

I always loved this, and the opera Prince Igor from which they came! And . . . the musical Kismet which uses these themes. I am, slowly, trying to learn to play the piano (at an advanced age) and my current favorite piece are these dances!

Oh, Japan.

Seems like some humble brags going on here. Doesn't anyone have any negative characteristics to share? Me, my problem is, I care too much . . .

Easteuropid: While I don't like the idea of being "domesticated," despite the fact that my wife would say I was, as used here it means willing and able to live together in peace. I find it hard to hate that. Note too that domesticated dogs, Dobermans for instance, are quite effective at being...

Angela: I can only guess (thinking out loud here) that the driver had to do with the consequences of aggressive behavior in different eras. During the Paleolithic over aggressive behavior might have bad results (the Mastodon might win), but over passive behavior always resulted in starvation (a...

Perhaps my information is out of date, but I thought hg F was a descendant of CF, not C, and that C and F were sibling clades. Not a big point, but since CF is only inferred can we be certain it is an out-of-Africa haplogroup?