Great essay. The influence of money on US elections is the great curse and I don’t see any getting away from that. In my electoral district in Canada our candidate had ~$300K to spend in the last federal election, public money supplimented by private donations to the party. The party could afford to run the media ads…

Don’t forget that a coalition never would have responded to Saddam invading Kuwait if it wasn’t for Maggie Thatcher. When she heard that GHWB was mulling over what, if anything, to do about it she practically accused him of being an appeaser a la Chamberlain and prompted a hard-line response.

Back in the day my Mom used to save all the TV dinner aluminum trays and make leftover individual MREs for us. When the kids needed dinner and mom way away dinner was a defrost and re-heat away. TV dinners got old real fast but the trays were handy. To this day I still save individual portions of the big recipes,…

In other countries the status of the fetus was decided differently. In two cases in Canada Tremblay v. Daigle and R. v. Sullivan. both cases relied on the born alive rule, inherited from English common law, to determine that the fetus was not a person at law.

Just so y’all know my Wu Tang Clan name generator name is Doge Unreal.

Except that when the southern border was open the migrant laborers would cross into the U.S., work and go back to Mexico with their earnings. It worked out for the farmers and others that needed field and manual(manuel) labor and it worked out for the Mexicans et al. When the border got hard to cross they just stayed…

More than likely blood. They were none too gentle when shearing hair and humiliating female collaborators in occupied countries. Men got shot.

This is precisely why the Sentinelese are so wary of foreigners. British colonial rule almost accompished their extermination

Thanks for this series overview. Sorry you didn’t get more lovin’ in the comments section. This was another good outing for AMC with a LeCarre novel. Anyone know if they are doing another? Spy Who Came in From the Cold was rumored a while back.

As a huge LeCarre fan I’m enjoying this new treatment. The film was OK but for the terrible miss-cast lead but there is nothing like a multi-hour mini series to give the novel it’s proper showcase. Le Carre must be happy with it I’m sure knowing his feelings on how Hollywood screwed up this the first go round.

As Commander in Chief Drumph holds the same duty to face danger as the lowliest grunt. Comes with the oath to protect the Constitution.

I dunno maybe he’ll string together a few history themed presidential zingers. Could be an interesting nite.

Fake News, this whole thing is a load of Schiff

I sincerely hope all these dogs find homes. There are many unscrupulous people in the dog-racing world that think nothing of killing racing hounds once they have out lived their careers. In Europe a common practice is to jam the dog’s leg in the switch potion of a railway track and leave the dog to be run over by the…

His speech might have worked at the Oscars if he made it a shit sandwich. Start and end with the inspiring docmentary stuff and put the evil GB piece in the middle.

Now I wonder who will take up the mantle of asking the hard questions that Acosta would press the WH on. There have been a only a couple of MSM reporters that jousted with SHS and Drumpf. That guy from Playboy and Jonathan Karl come to mind but who else will be that annoying mosquito they just can’t seem to shoo away?…

Did you hear the latest rumor? The chocolate ration is going up 6 grams next week. Doubleplusgood eh Brother?

My dad made the dishes dance at the dinner table when he hit the table instead of us, he was waaay more intimidating as a result. I only got spanked once and I was a real little shit causing my mom grief Christmas shopping in a busy dept store, crowded main floor, pants down bare ass woopin’. No one said shit and I…

The Intercept has an article up that suggests the Murdochs (Lachlan, Rupert, their spouses et al) start getting disinvited from all the conferences, retreats, galas etc like what happened to Steve Bannon. Treat the purveyors of racist politics like pariahs for starters then work on the Fox talent. The ‘elites’ need to…

Good one. I’d nominate Botswana, in the ‘tradional African state you’d normally think of as a “shithole” but really isn’t’ category.