There were plenty anti-imperialists at the time. It was one of the motives behind the America First group, although that unfortunately had a large dose of anti-Semitism and pro-Nazi in it. For that matter, FDR loathed imperialism and had no interest in propping the British and French up. If he had lived to serve…

Winston Churchill very strongly believed in the right of England to rule over brown people.

Goodness, makes you wonder why the Indians didn't ask the British to come back.

I'm glad someone else remembers that. Yes, this was done 27 years ago, and it was hilarious.

Never seen "Young Frankenstein"?

"Madness! Madness!"

Well, you could just accept the fact that it's silly to expect to not hear about things on the internet months after they happen. It's even sillier to read comment threads in that situation.

"Deeply closet homosexual compensates by being overt homophobe" is a pretty standard trope.

And Maggie Smith is 79.

no

Santiago is hotter than hell, but this does not preclude Diaz from also being hot.

BTW, I'm sure everybody knows this, but just to make clear, clowns were not necessary to coax children into gas chambers. Trickery usually did it, and if it didn't, guard dogs and guns would.

All the smoking in Kennedy assassination coverage—that dude who was in the studio in Dallas puffing away. George Carlin puffing on a cig as he signed off the first episode of "Saturday Night Live". Strange times.

From what I understand what really happened was that the rights had expired. Some shifty fly-by-night producer had optioned the screenplay, but then he ran out of money, so Lewis took over the production himself, but by the time filming had wrapped the rights had expired. That "Spy" article with the Harry Shearer…

Wait, wait, what? The kid chooses to stay? Oh my God.

Almost all of Theda Bara's career is missing. She made something like two dozen films, but all we have is "A Fool There Was" and a couple of shorts.

Yes, what in holy fuck was that? "Mrs. Crawley, do us a solid, please let a bum live with you for a while."

Daisy makes a lot of poor choices. Why is she still licking the asses of the Crawleys when she could be running her own farm with her father-in-law?

You just have to be rich.

I felt that way in Season 3, when everyone was terrified at the prospect of selling their grotesquely enormous castle and moving to a slightly smaller but still gigantic mansion. Boo fucking hoo.