How about the fact that my wife tells me in depth history and stories behind the places we visit?
When we take bus tours in America or other countries, she often discusses the area with guides who have lived there all their lives and sometimes tells them things they didn't know.

That's swell. My wife does that too. Without portfolio.

So what's your point? You have a nice marriage?

In what areas do you keep her informed? Certainly not national politics. Because what's going on in Trump's mind, as a Reagan Democrat, has just been waiting all along to kick off that prophetic gene in your body that said America would become the authoritarian nation you have desired all along.

Not sure about the missus. Nor do I care about her spelling.

Enjoy your pizza. Stay away from the brown acid.

I suspect immigration and integration would be discussed in a very different tone today.
#57 | Posted by BillJohnson

I agree, but why, if the thesis was addressing the facts?

You typed it, and your wife from what you say stays immersed in historical subjects, which seem to inform your thoughts.

Why would facts be discussed in a different tone today than 30 or 40 years ago? Would you say the same for the natural sciences, or are you closed out from opinions there because your wife isn't a scientist?

Surely you've known people without formal credentials you still consider experts.
#56 | Posted by BillJohnson

The point Doc, I think, is making, is just because your wife has an MA doesn't make her one. If he's not making that point, I will.

A master's degree doesn't impress me. I read stuff from full professors who can't figure out how to write a footnote.

I write mainly to organize and clarify my own thoughts.
#47 | Posted by BillJohnson

Hoo-boy.

Sorry, Bill, she wrote it years ago, so let's assume immigration and integration from the 1880s to the 1920s.

Same holds.

51 can't be said enough.

From what I recall, she researched immigration and integration 100 years ago [the 1920s], along with the causes and background of certain riots.
#41 | Posted by BillJohnson

Sounds fascinating, and kudos for you to typing it.

In today's scholarship at most universities, that topic would uncover a lot of information that I'd guess would make you uncomfortable.

Was your wife on the tour with you? Did her history degree mean that she knew more than the docents at Charlottesville?

What specifically was her master's thesis on? Please make it general so we don't have to look it up.

Master's degree in history? Isn't that, for rightwingers, the equivalent of basket-weaving?

The secondhand knowledge that you reflect from your ---------------- shows as much.

you're hiding ...

Db,
"What makes you more knowledgeable about what to present than the people actually there"
I'm not the history expert. My wife is.
Masters in history and years of in depth research and constant reading about many subjects.
And she's a beautiful human being.

Every time history is mentioned, you bring up your wife and her master's degree as if that absolves you and what you post here. Why should that change our mind? Why don't you have her log in here if your hiding under her skirts?

That must get tiring for you constantly thinking about and hating Trump.
#29 | Posted by BillJohnson

Constantly heralding your own thoughts and patting yourself on the back because Donald Trump shares what's going on in your head must leave you very well rested and at peace with yourself.

Nam myoho renge kyo.

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#26 | Posted by Corky

Thanks, but they were pikers.

When the Spaniards tried to destroy Incan temples, they found the temples were built one inside another. Not just one big pyramid. More like Russian nesting dolls.

Dumb Western Europeans. And that was the culture they destroyed.

TJ wanted to kill all the Native Americans but save their languages to study them. Fact.

More BJ: 13. "Slavery and the wrist-slashing remorse and guilt amount to little more than virtue signaling by the left."

You are just a disgusting human being for this reason: You don't care that the country you love (hell, the entire hemisphere) was built on land stolen from one people while committing genocide against them and built literally on the backs of another.

Posted by BillJohnson:

5. "I'm not going to defend slavery but it was woven into the fabric of those times."

I've taken the tour too. You were looking for hagiography to support what you thought should be heard. Why? What makes you more knowledgeable about what to present than the people actually there, who are fully versed in their material? My wife was concerned there wasn't a tour of the slave quarters. That interested her very much, and she's as southern as you get (more so as the Alzheimer's takes full hold; you can draw your own conclusions).

11. "You just hate America. Why not just move away?" Will you do that when Trumpism dies?

13. "It started when they made the killing of unborn children." Abortion goes back thousands of years.

14. "TDS has become an obsession far out of proportion to the actual problems of our time." Which are what in your opinion? And Trump is in the middle of all actual problems of our time now. He's been president of These United States for a long time over a period of time, and never went away when he wasn't.

Bill: Recent scholarship talks about the use of enslaved people in the production of the New Testament. That'll give you something to cheer about. People under the boot.

How sick is it that Georgia news gets my attention because I lived there 20 years and never even heard of this?

I also edit for Everytown for Gun Safety. Still off my radar.

US pharmacopoeia: Take me away.

List of Retorters who don't come here for self-glorification, in one way or another: