How many 4th cousins do you have?

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4. one thing I find disgusting

is that seemingly my most FAMOUS relatives are a gang of thugs. There have been movies made about the "Loomis gang" and people are seemingly all excited to be related to the Loomis gang.

And I am thinking "of all the Professors and doctors and Revolutionary War soldiers and such that this family includes and people make movies about a gang of thugs, and want to talk about their relation to a gang of thugs."

But I am also related to THIS family as well http://www.inheritingthetrade.com/

A sad truth of our society, the easiest way to become famous, and one that takes almost NO talent at all, is to get a gun and go on a shooting spree. Suddenly your name will be on the front page of papers and on the TV and maybe even in some movies.

In one of the Foundation books, Asimov suggested that the media stop using real names when reporting on these people, instead of a name just call them Moron #1 or some such. Because a desire to be famous to be SOMEbody does seem to motivate at least some of the morons who do these type of things.