Icon Re: Another excellent essay...Sept Esquire...
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Herring405 (view)

Well the essay is clearly a rant, but I thought I'd mention this bit:

"(2) You know that all our Presidents are related?! It's true; Burke's Peerage traces the ancestry of all the men who became President-they're all related to Charlemange. What are the odds this is coincidence?"

What's interesting here is the writer's implied claim that because there is a genetic linkage between these people (assuming we take his claims at face value), that this amounts to a sort of conspiracy.

A book I recently read, Before the Dawn, makes the scientific claim that all of us currently living on the planet are descended from a single male, who lived some 5,000 years ago or so.  Also from a single female who lived a little bit further back than that.

So I guess the conspiracy just widened to include all of us!!!!!!!  After all, what are the odds that this is coincidence????  Oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!

Herring405

(searching for the tinfoil)

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