No more wars for inflated oil reserve estimates and morose infrastructure.

Over 70 of the Fortune 500 companies have their headquarters in the Twin Cities after all

That map makes the Mercator projection look unbiased toward the poles

Less than four months IIRC?

This was the guy with supporters who may have said something about not being the world‘s policeman anymore but I didn‘t realize then that would still allow acting as a vigilante to steal things for his friends and family but here we are

Chaos ensues

Ani gets correspondence in order, as usual (this time with alt-text)

Memorial would seem to be…premature?

Madame Ceaușescu would be proud

Yay Madison (too)

Filial piety is a journey

Cthulhu has entered the chat

Link here - is on a syllabus of mine (and does not appear to be paywalled) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Quentin Blake Elementary School is just down the road from me in Berlin. His visit in 2011 is still celebrated on the school’s website.