re: #316 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

“To crush your enemies — See them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”

It’s part of the quote from Genghis Khan. The rest of it rejoices in taking the place of the now dead husbands. Some 3 percent of the Y chromosomes of men in a wide swath of what once was the Mongol Empire are near perfect copies of each other. The original bearer of that chromosome must have been Genghis Khan himself. His reproductive strategy wasn’t nice at all, but it, err, worked.

When we wonder why dictators act the way they do, there’s a clue.