The first baby boomers could vote in 1967. I can't be bothered to look up when whites born before 1946 stopped representing a majority of those of voting age, but it would have been well after that point. So that probably explains why the end of Jim Crow laws and segregation had to wait until the civil rights movement…

He finally stopped beating his wife

Their chief weapons are surprise and disappointing expectations.

Yes, Wilson was a racist and a segregationist. He glorified the origins of the KKK, and realistically he wrote and did much more to advance their cause than most actual members. So I would accept that it's fairly unimportant hair-splitting that I cannot find any place (short of misleading snippets out of context)…

Wilson was a staunch supporter and maybe even member of the KKK.

The uncertainty given in http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… is very high (peak US territory native population in the 2-18 million range). But you are probably correct in that disease had a huge effect on the colonization of North America.

My impression is that those figures are ultra sketchy — that somebody divided the population the colonists saw against a wild-ass guess about what the population might once have been.

Oh dear. Without context, that sentence could be taken at face value, couldn't it?

It's on the History channel because it's history. They even enlisted Franklin graphic biographer Christopher Hastings to make sure they get their facts straight.

You take down the muppet while I rob the puppeteer.

I don't claim and clearly he doesn't claim that his response was completely rational and free of emotion. But when someone is trying hard to provoke a confrontation, responding with anything short of violence may count as meeting par. There's the aspirational level of performance and the minimum acceptable level, and…

It was a nice apology, but he did nothing wrong. If someone is bothered by a slur used where they couldn't even hear it, directed at a stranger who was acting like an undisputed jackass before the slur was used, that's their problem. Of course slurs are insulting; that's the point. Of course slurs may allude to…

Okay, I suppose that somewhere you might actually find someone who believes in death for stick gathering, in which case I don't support their desire to kill people who do normal harmless things either.

Rubbish. But let's start with the death penalty for apostasy or insulting the prophet, because it's easier to count.

Hopefully this show will feature a much larger variety of criminal professions compared to Breaking Bad. I look forward to identifying one that suits my temperament and abilities.

Sure, it may not have been clear but I wasn't trying to argue with you either. I wasn't even objecting to Josh's example characters, which did seem meant to be taken at face value.

There are a million reasons why a movie might include a character who comes off as insane or idiotic but who is not intended to represent actual people with those conditions. It could be a comment about normal people or the constraints of normalcy, as in The Idiots, or it could represent alien thinking without the…

They wanted to, but Morrissey refused to get a hair weave and basically everything went to hell at that point.

Exposition Man: At all costs, we must stop Thanos from collecting the six Infinity Gems in his Infinity Gauntlet!
Exposition Boy: What happens if he does?
Exposition Man: He gets a seventh gem free.

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