[SunkenCiv]

The General picked great people, Hamilton was his best pick.

There's a lot of incoherent, inchoate animus directed at Hamilton, and not just here in the warm, welcoming pages of FR.

I used to know a guy who wondered if I could break a twenty, and I had two tens. He balked, because Hamilton's on the tens, then gave me this long spiel about how he was himself descended (illegitimately) from Aaron Burr, and claimed to have all the documentation and inside information about everything that had gone on between Hamilton and Burr, but that an aunt who had the documentation had lost it when the Andrea Doria went down.

Y'know, that may be the wildest story I've ever told, and every word true. I'd just never written it down before, and it really looks crazy in print. Which, of course, was to be the point anyway -- incoherent, inchoate animus.

[Openurmind]

I appreciate you sharing that, I am probably one of the few who read your personal nuggets and find them fascinating, and sometimes argumentative. lol

What? Was he doubting that two Hamiltons were worth one Jackson? Or even four Lincolns were worth a Jackson? Bet he wasn’t going to get even one Eagle in that exchange... :)

[Pelham]

You should have informed Burr’s illegitimate descendant that his illustrious progenitor was tried for treason during Jefferson’s presidency. Not that TJ could have been holding a grudge or anything. Burr’s sorry butt was saved by Jefferson’s cousin & political rival John Marshall.

[gleeaikin]

I just finished reading a book about the warfare in the 1500s between the Christian and the Muslim countries (especially Turks) to control the Mediterranean Sea. At any rate I now know why Andrea Doria was famous. During his decades he was the greatest Christian seafarer who fought the Muslims to a standstill. Aaron Burr got into a lot of trouble as he tried to gain power in parts of our western south independent from being a part of the United States. A wild and crazy story that which I am too tired to Google for details.

[Red Badger]

incoherent, inchoate animus...............Great name for a heavy metal band!...............