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Oh, there’s worse than that!

With each generation we go back, we double the number of ancestors we have. Two biological parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, and so on.

Problem is, go back about 30 generations, and we each have more ancestors than there were people on Earth. In order to get the necessary numbers, we end up with a whole lot of cousin-humping—and closer!

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In his humorous essay “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex”, Larry Niven pointed out the futility of Lois Lane attempting to have children with Superman, an extraterrestrial. She’d have more luck mating with a banana.

“Ong mate, so much potential and its wasted on the New Gods and making Superman and Batman date minors.”

Uhm, no.

Here’s a frustration I face with so many “reviews” of my work—even some of the good ones! It’s not the actual work that is being reviewed. More often it’s cobbled together nonsense based on misquotes, rumors and outright lies.

sigh