Sure. But that's not when tobacco or many other crops are planted and picked. It's for labor-intensive crops that unskilled labor of any type was required. We're talking about a pre-industrial society here when this started.

Have you ever been in the UK or Ireland in the summer? Before global climate change started to kick in? Without a sweater?

It wasn't that the Anglo-Celts could "pass", or even that those who were indentured servants got their freedom after a while, but the hypothesis that they couldn't handle the physical strain of working in "tropical" environments. I use those quotation marks because while the American South isn't exactly tropical, it …

Nope. England and France got Egypt to plant cotton in 1862 or 1863, and after the war Southern cotton prices were definitely effected by the competition because the price had dropped so low. Even if the Southern planters had been able to keep their slaves and get their debt moved forward, the prices were so low that…

He dies in obscurity in Harry Turtledove's How Few Remain, the first of the eleven book Southern Victory (aka Timeline-191) series.

They got the job done in Boardwalk Empire.

I said it elsewhere on this thread, but here it goes again: Turtledove's a bad, formulaic writer, but he's really damned good at tweaking the technological, political and cultural evolution on a divergent timeline. I'll turn down the medal I should get for reading that entire series- eleven books, I think- for the…

Man, it looks like it took a while for someone to get to Turtledove. How many books in that Timeline 191 series? 10? 11?

And before the Chinese publish, they're going to have to bring that satellite back to Earth and check it to see if it isn't registering false positives.

This will be stunning if, after they publish, the same results follow the same methods under the same conditions by scientists independent of this study. Scientific method and all that jazz, ya know.

I don't normally plead for people to get plastic surgery, but damn, this woman needs to fix those eyes.

The statue is placed on a pedestrian right-of-way known as Riverwalk. Where do you think it is?

Hell, why go to Indiana when you can go to the Illinois suburbs and places like Chuck's in Riverdale, which, nationwide, has a reputation of selling more guns that are used to commit crimes than any other gun shop.

Oh, please let Trump bitch about this. I can't wait to see how long it takes for the water, sewers and streets departments to start doing "emergency" repairs right around the building.

He's not getting his own show. He's going to be a "contributor".

What a totally unexpected move! Pigman thinks outside the box, don't he?!

I've got a friend who dislikes "underpants", but cringes at "panties" (as well as "pussy" and "epiglottis").

Jheri curl? I'm pretty sure that Miller's hair curls more loosely all on it's own. Mine did that when it came back after I'd lost it to chemo. Hell, look at classic era Roger Daltrey and Robert Plant- that was all natural.

How many of those are talkshow appearances?

Nothing against V-Day- I'm fully supportive of the ladies and their lovely lady parts. But I think there would be a lot more people out in the streets and dancing if Trump just keeled over.