Really Bad Joke: John Edwards for President?

Now that he's officially a lying scuzzball, did we dodge a bullet, or what? How many firsts did we avoid? First unwed mother? First bastard child, although I hardly think it fair to call the child the bastard. What would he have done to his love child had he been elected? Remember the movie: Absolute Power? Scary, isn't it? He lied to us, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, not politician lies, but real people-to-people lies. He should be banned from ever holding public office at any level ever again.

World Population Density

According to Delanceyplace.com, six hundred years ago, somewhere around 1400, the population of the earth was 350 million, or slightly more than the current population of the United States. Most lived on just 4.25 million square miles, or barely 7 percent of the  earth's dry land, that portion being the most suitable for agriculture. Those densely populated regions of earth corresponded to just fifteen highly developed civilizations, the most notable being (from east to west) Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Indonesia, Indochina, the Islamic West Asia, Europe, Aztec, and Inca.Today, 70 percent of the world's six billion people live on those same 4.25 million square miles.

According to my calculations, that results in 82 people per square mile in 1400 and 988  people per square mile today. By comparison, today New York City has about 400 people per square mile. In 1400, my guess is New York City (though it hadn't yet been so named) had about 40 (probably of the Lenape persuasion) people per square mile, and who knows how many when the Europeans started poking around with some vigor two hundred years later.

Question for today.

Who owns your vote?