Understanding Trump: I convinced myself that I could predict about 90 percent of what Nancy Pelosi would do by studying Mike Royko's "Boss" and "The Last Hurrah" (the book, not th… (View Post)

Viewed from eight time zones away, the obsession with Brexit on this site seems mistaken. From what I can tell from this far away, Brexit has resulted in a modest increase in democracy In Britain, so… (View Post)

Correction: SCID prevalence among the Navajo is about 1 in 2,000, not 1 in 200. (View Post)

Off topic, but good news: A little Navajo boy, Hataałii Tiisyatonii “HT” Begay, has been cured of a rare genetic disease: "HT was born with a form of severe combined immunodeficiency, or SCID, w… (View Post)

FPT: John McWhorter has this to say about British ancestry in "Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue": "It turns out that only about 4 percent of British men's genetic material is traceable t… (View Post)