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Possibly. The Romans probably Latinized his name the same way the half literate, half drunk Irish clerk at Ellis Island turned Wladyczniew Slobvonchvik and Gyros Souvlaki into Walter and Jerry Smith. A kindness and a big step towards assimilating. Nowadays we’re so anti-assimilation that M’beki-Dlzotza’ stays that way and wonders why he’s socially handicapped.

Do you know how the German pronunciation has shifted over 2,000 years? Herman = Erman (if the H is silent), and the “ius” is just a Latin masculine ending, presumably added when Herman, as a young man, was a hostage/cadet/honored guest being brought up in Rome as a means of ensuring his father’s good behavior. What I don’t know is how the “E” sound in “Erman” becomes the “A” sound in “Armenius.” How did the Germans pronounce “Herman” 2000 years ago? Those vowel shifts are tricky things.

Someone need to brush up a bit on the statistics on interracial crime. That’s assuming she can read.

Be careful. If he says anything, HR will probably install a hidden camera on his wheeled bin and start documenting your harassment of a black team member.

It’s time to ban schools.

This is one of the most absurd, artificial controversies yet. The HFPA was founded in the 1940's as an association of foreign journalists covering the U.S. film industry. The membership qualifications were that members had to (1) work for a foreign publication, (2) cover the Hollywood beat, and (3) live in southern California so that they could come to meetings. It's always been small. I imagine it's still a rather clubby, ingrown group. It may be rotten to the core in 101 Hollywoodish ways. But it's not racially discriminatory. It has had black members in the past. If there aren't any now, it's because none have applied to join. This does not especially surprise me. Its membership will reflect the foreign publications that find it worth their while to maintain a Hollywood bureau. I would imagine that these are mostly publications in countries with large and sophisticated film industries of their own, with both a professional film community and a large, knowledgable viewership base eager to follow the industry globally. If Africa has not yet developed a robust indigenous film industry, that is not the HFPA's fault. If there are no major publications with international bureaus covering the film industry in Lagos, Kinshasa, Nairobi, or Addis Ababa, that is not the HFPA's fault.

There is no particular reason why a German, Italian, Indian, Japanese or Korean publication should be expected to hire a black reporter to cover Hollywood, just so the HFPA can meet an arbitrary quota. I know, I know; the reigning idiots believe if something moves, it becomes white man's burden to piggyback a black quota across the finish line. The world is to be reengineered as a sheltered workshop for black people. Enough.

All this would go away if the schools could teach black kids to read and do math at grade level and to close the gap on SAT scores. What is the obstacle? That is the question that should be put front and center every time the woke activists insert themselves into the schools.

"Societies create a pay-as-you-go system that is dependent on there being a greater number of younger people of working age relative to those of retirement age,” the explainer piece reads.

Not quite. Socialists create Ponzi schemes. Ponzi schemes eventually collapse.

That would explain their extinction.

Bet they were going after the last MAGA hat on the clearance rack.

I think she’s demonstrating next generation green transportation after the elimination of the private automobile.

Mitch has always been an excellent Minority Leader. The turtle just mumbles through questions from a hostile press, pulls his head inside his shell, and lets the dem hysteria roll off his back. He has always provided great cover for vulnerable Republican Senators. As Majority Leader ... well, going all the way back to Bob Dole and the first Republican Senate in 30 years, we’ve never had more than 55 Republican votes in the Senate. There used to be enough moderate dems to strike an occasional deal, but the dems have gone hard left. Mitch can’t break a filibuster. Neither could Trent Lott, Bill Frist or Bob Dole, all of whom were hailed as saviors by the base when they took their turn. Arithmetic is arithmatic.

Have they claimed asylum in the U.S. yet? Biden probably has a plane on the way.

But no menthol.

Do you know how much life expectancies have increased for CF patients? And how many years this new treatment might add?

One of the truly lovely actresses, with a knack for popping up in unexpected places. I really liked her in Man in the Iron Mask and the cult classic American Werewolf in London, where she is great in a comic/horror/romance mashup. Still on her starter husband as well; married when she was 32 and it seems to have stuck. Glad to see that she’s still acting.

The experiment has already been done: Mitochondrial Eve and her sperm donor.

I’ll get right on that. Any idea what it would go for on Ebay?

The “blonde” girl is not a blonde girl, if you know what I mean. The Amish wear hair extensions of various hues.

I don’t think that Old Emmett Tyrrell is embarrassed that he swam for Doc Councilman at IU rather than splashing in a kiddie pool in the Ivy League.