Quote of the Day

Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, quoted by Ed Driscoll guest blogging at Instapundit, on the subject of the true nature of the "noble" savage.

Real Indians sweat, they smell bad, they take hallucinogenic drugs, they belch after they eat, they covet and at times steal their neighbour’s wife, they fornicate, and they make war. 

I'd add: Indians are also implicated in the extinction of several species including the wooly mammoth and the saber-toothed cat. In sum, they are precisely as (ig)noble as the rest of the human species.