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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Ancestory

On the left: what I should be doing.  On the right: what I've actually been doing.

I spent the last dozen waking hours playing around on Ancestry.com.  It really is remarkable how they've created a combination online resource/genealogy hosting site/family tree wiki.

For about fifteen minutes this morning I was descended from Scottish kings.  But then, not so much.

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