Could help explain a few trends in American history

[Mark Kohut]

This reminds me of all the women in the Vroom household.

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> On Feb 10, 2015, at 2:41 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> This reminds me of the Lexicon of Commonplaces by Flaubert, a posthumously published side-project to Bouvard et Pécuchet, where it says about women:
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> Blond women --- hotter than brunette women.
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> ...
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> Brunette women --- hotter than blond women.
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> ...
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> Dark-skinned women --- see 'Blond women,' 'Brunette women.'
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> ...
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> Red-haired women --- see 'Blond women,' 'Brunette women,' 'Dark-skinned women.'
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>> On 10.02.2015 08:19, Ian Livingston wrote:
>> Colette tells me Japanese women are crazy, too. Sometimes I think I'm supposed to believe there is someone sane somewhere.
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>> It ain't me, babe.
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>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:05 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry. You're right. My bad.
>>> 
>>>  But passing on the wisdom of German women being crazy?  I took the bait.  Oops! Still, your style works.
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>>> David
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>>>> On Sunday, February 8, 2015, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Sorry, guys, I'm just not seeing any reference to Nazism in anything I've said, except the explicit dismissal above. Maybe that's your own thing?
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 6:59 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Wow! You pack a lot of provocation into a short post.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Neo-Nazi sexism? Atheistic selfish libertarian anarchy?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bring it Om!
>>>>> 
>>>>> David Morris
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sunday, February 8, 2015, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Don't have to be a Nazi to be an uptight German. I used to live in WI, enmeshed with all those brilliant crazy saxons. A Berliner acquaintance, of mine, of a certain income class, won't go out with German women, "Because they're crazy." He's chasing Hispanic women in Texas, these days, I hear.
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>>>>>> I mean, I'm no anti-saxon or anything. Hell, I can claim a fair share of saxon blood mixed in with the celt. I just think there is a remarkable similarity in the drive for wealth just because if-I-get-it-then-you-don't-and-I-win between the US, England, and Germany. It's the whole somewhat twisted every man-for-himself slant on anarchy--no miracles allowed. And I think it's a socially-driven competitiveness within and among warrior societies. 
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>>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Know any Germans? Like, today? In real life? 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> How many of them would you call Nazis?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> MT
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>>>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Aw, c'mon. That's not nice.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> MT
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>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/02/daily-chart-3
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