Gove is, from what I've been told, not alone. There are a lot of brits, like Niall Ferguson, who feel the same way. All of whom are admittedly dumb right-wing pricks.

The thing that gets me isn't how much of it was down to people like Haig, it's how much of it was down to train schedules. The highly rationalized and planned process of deployment meant that de-escalation was basically impossible past a certain point. It's a profoundly banal evil, the same kind of evil that you see…

It's worth noting that this episode has actually come under fire by right-wing historians in Britain, especially now that we're at the centennial of the war. Google "Blackadder School" if you want to see a bunch of neoimperial fuckheads going on and on about how it was a good war.

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf…

Infinite was a bad game for a variety of reasons, man, including the fact that it heavily leaned towards what we stereotypically associate with console players.

Mass Effect is pretty crap at it in my opinion. You've even got colour coded points. It's just that instead of Saint/Demon the dichotomy is Good Cop/Bad Cop.

No, I think the problem is in part with Irrational. Infinite blew through a lot of money on features and ideas that they didn't wind up using. There's something to be said for being able to scope a project.

Naw, he initially wanted to do that until they gave him lots and lots of money

Take Two paid him lots and lots of money to do it this way, because apparently he's really important to their brand. He wanted to leave and found a startup.

That's because more conservative groups registered under the relevant tax exempt status. There have always been more tax exempt conservative groups for a variety of reasons. For example, local liberal and leftist organization has often been left up to unions, which tend to be larger groups and which IIRC don't apply…

Actually, we don't know what'll happen. that's just one projection, and probably a dumb one, since it assumes that workers will reduce their hours rather than working the same hours and asking higher compensation now that there's less of a burden on their employers in terms of benefits.

Those aren't words taken out of context. Words taken out of context would be if she'd said that and it was said, like, jokingly or something in a way that means it'd make sense. Her original words didn't make sense because they were a lie. HtH.

She never said that. What she said was that her proximity to Russia meant that she had foreign policy chops even though she has no foreign policy experience, which is a lie that makes her look like a stupid hick. The quote you cite is from Tina Fey playing a caricature of her in a sketch.

Obama made the mistake of thinking that people who had ludicrously shitty coverage wouldn't want to keep their coverage. He assumed they actually understood that they were being ripped off.

Bush had taken over three times as many holidays by this point in his tenure, and basically every president since Woodrow Wilson has done this in some form or another. In days of yore, Americans used to praise and be attracted to what the president was watching. Heck, the makers of Birth of a Nation used praise Wilson…

Not really? If you're in the President's office it's super important to do shit by the book because you can't do things normal people can do like torrent.

Probably. Most people are at least a little bisexual, and they were in the industry at a time when procuring a metric shitload of drugs and prostitutes was as easy as phoning your doctor and giving a note to the nice boy at the filling station.

Actually Bush wasn't much in terms of advance screeners or special screenings. He was more into sports and playing cowboy. Hence his huge swath of vacation days.

Pretty much everyone's done this since Woodrow Wilson. It used to be mostly screenings of films, until making screeners got easier.

Presidents do this all the time. The Royal Family in the UK does this all the time because Balmoral is boring as shit. Literally no one has minded until now because it's a stupid thing to be upset about.