The Blaisdell Blog

  A recent article in The Monitor about how we are changing our view of the evolution of man through new and better information reminded me of my part in original research in man’s journey from primitive hominids to modern humans. Several years ago, I took part in the Genographic Project sponsored by National Geographic.   For a modest sum I was sent a kit to collect skin cells from the inside of my cheek.   These cells allowed me to learn the path my ancestors took in their long journey from past to present.   They also allowed the Genographic Project to add my DNA to its bank of information on the human species.   I am now a part of original research, and I know a little more about my story. Of course, there are some things that are obvious to anyone even casually aware of modern anthropology.   We know that all humans evolved in Africa starting 2.5 million years ago with Homo sapiens appearing some 200,000 years ago amidst dramatic climatic changes.   We know that humans trave

 The Constitution is our anchor of stability in a turbulent world!   We can withstand a bad President and a petulant Congress (for the short term, at least) because our Constitution both guides and limits.   If someone asked me to provide proof of a loving God, I would simply ask them how else so many geniuses in the matter of human governance could have been clustered together in the right time and place to create both our country and the means to govern it.    Our founding fathers had the vision to devise a way to not only govern themselves, but govern a country that they could not imagine, yet believed would prevail. The constitution of the United States is like a good parent.   It has allowed us to grow up as we have grown older, with the result that the United States of America is the oldest living democracy in the world.   The miracle of this document is that it lives, breathes and moves with the times.   The three branches of our government work together while standing alone