It was the style at the time to consider Sun Tsu an all purpose guide to stuff. Of course, it was also the style at the time to slap "ninja" and "rap" on everything, reaching its ultimate illogical conclusion around 1991 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHk0...

Yeah, I was assuming the entirety of the history was pretty glossed over to the absolute basics. I see it in the AP syllabus, but that's obviously at a bit finer grained than Scalzi's original list of items.

Surely Vietnam gets a namecheck by now.

They were "stocking caps" when/where I grew up in Georgia. I don't think I heard "toque" until I heard the McKenzie brothers' 12 days of christmas as a teenager, and beanie was even later than that.

It’s certainly been offensive to watch.

There’s another pattern that fits the data, of course.

Now now. Only every *other* mayor goes to jail, over the last 20 years.

"America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland."

The theme always seemed to me to have a lot in common with “the boy from New York City” youtu.be/3TPYmeSqLjc?...

It's all the same if the pumps are on or if they are off. Should we even have pumps? www.nola.com/news/new-orl...

My tomato allergy and I salute you.

There's something about the Where The Streets Have No Name intro ambience - as you picked it out on piano - that reminds me of Fairy Tale of New York.