Then how do you explain this:

Putting aside all the lies beneath that smug face, Jimmy Carter wearing a sweater to encourage sufficiency and sacrifice was a joke in the right wing for over two decades. Now they are literally saying "eat generic" and there is no pushback.

The original German was more succinct.

And they cut staffing and instituted self-checkout and they have the temerity to be surprised there is more shrinkage.

This reminds me so much of the German defendants in postwar trials engaging in hair splitting defenses that while they participated in atrocities they had broken no laws because said laws didn't exist.

For a moment I thought this was Highlander.

Exactly 80 years ago tomorrow (Nov. 30, 1945), German submarine commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck and two of his former subordinates on the U-852 were shot by Allies in Hamburg for killing the survivors of a ship they had sunk. Pete Hagueseth should be very worried. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...

President Hernandez was serving 45 years in prison for a plot to distribute 400 tons of cocaine before Trump pardoned him. Meanwhile, Trump is murdering fishermen in small boats for allegedly smuggling far smaller amounts.

The scene where the kids are being educated via a film still hits me. There is a lesson involving a cat and none of the kids will ever have the luxury of a pet. The idea that society is just fundamentally broken sticks with me.

There is a great book on this topic of reactionary media of the seventies. newbooksnetwork.com/joe-street-d...

We need more Dan Fieldings in popular culture.

The Bandai kits are relaxing in a lot of ways. I had fun last year with their T. rex and it was my first experiment with oil paint dot filters.

Chaser: the Lord of the Harvest is no match for a Kaiju cat.

Wow. The French occupation is such a hole in the historiography of the occupation period. Thanks for this!