[scouse]

Just because the byline reads Columbus, Ohio, it doesn't mean it's not true.

[RWG]

What were these guys doing? No written language, no wheel, no nothing except tobacco and peyote.

[Cicero]

Is it a "sophisticated" city when the primary architectural feature is a pyramid where they take captives to have their hearts cut out?

[NeoCaveman]

Just because the byline reads Columbus, Ohio, it doesn't mean it's not true.

More credible than Floriduh.... or Michigan.

[secretagent]

It doesn't let Christopher off the hook for enslaving and killing the Taino Indians.

[lizma]

The demands of tending domestic crops encouraged people to settle in larger communities, where disease was more easily spread.

Well yeah, of coarse. Are they trying to say life expectancy went down? Hard pressed that earlier man didn't way the plusses and minuses and found this way of life more rewarding. It beat getting stepped on by a mastodon.

Archeologist tend to underestimate the abilities of our ancestors.

[Bosco]

There are a few things that central Ohio does well, and one of them is pointy-headed academics who study Agriculture.

As a '95 OSU Business school grad, I can tell you the Ag department is top shelf. Add to it that the academics are loathe to say anything bad about indigenous peoples, so this must be true.

As long as we're on the subject...

How about those Buckeyes?

[Arthur McGowan]

There's no such word as "alright."