That’s amazing.

You mis-spelled “1990.”

Another commenter here explains this:

Is the Spad bursting into flames (apparently) of its own accord a comment on French military prowess? I’m really struggling to understand what the hell is going on here. Especially with the vast time period mismatch between the planes and the office building architecture.

Yeah, and Lenin was literally the son of a (minor and newly-minted) Russian aristocrat.

I saw the headline too late to be number 3 independently.

Perhaps he was thinking of Amanda for a moment?

Damn right. Nobody considers the secondary and tertiary ramifications.

Yeah, “supervillain” refers to a totally different caliper of behavior.  They don’t need to pad this guy’s ego for him!

Ruined?

Is this a movie, or game show performance art?

Three years ago, Pope McCorkle III took home the Name of the Year crown. That Pope had been seeded number one (although a second Pope in that year’s bracket—Taco Pope — was a mere nine-seed).

...well, they’re welcome to mow down the kid, at any rate.

The only one of the many things I’d actually consider trying would be a cocktail. Vodka or gin, ranch, olive juice, lemon, sprig of basil? But even that sounds like it might be a “try once, then never again” type of deal, and even if I liked it I probably wouldn’t bother to stock ranch in my home in the hopes of…

Every time I read Clint Frazier’s name I have to double back and make sure I didn’t read “Clyde” by mistake.

Starred for effort.

So I’m 11:57 in and Harris already makes the distinction I’m making: recruiting Westerners and other immigrants to come fight for the Caliphate is different from getting Iraqi and Syrian people to join up, and uses different arguments and rhetoric. So yeah.

Not gonna watch a video with sound at work, but I will check this out later.

Of course that’s what the rear echelon of terrorist movements believes. They have to justify it that way (not least to themselves) lest they come off as insufficiently committed, weak in the eyes of the people they’re trying to frighten, or able to be bought off by pragmatic, secular policy changes.  If anything, that…

However, much of the lessons learned often gets forgotten with each new administration, especially arrogant ones.