No, he genuinely just wanted to be the first person to do both at the same time, while never questioning why it hadn't been done before.

The girl with the bangs and the horn-rimmed glasses does not belong in 2002.

If we're going to go international, Yair Lapid? Or, dear God, Beppe Grillo?

He abolished the law requiring matching pants and jacket.

You could always join in and bring back Prohibition or ban foreign languages or something.

Let's just keep telling ourselves that and hopefully it'll go away.

I can see their parachutes!

Even closer. New York to LA is more like Israel to Ireland.

This actually happened in Encounters at the End of the World.

Herring is oddly popular in Israel. The two most popular fish seem to be herring and salmon, which is weird, because neither come from the Mediterranean, so the transportation costs must be quite high. Does anybody know what fish live in the Mediterranean?

Basically, his theory is that the US would have upheld its promises to the various peoples living there because they already had a vested interest in the region (American universities in Lebanon and Syria), had the manpower to make it so (in contrast to the British and French who were pretty well wiped out and just…

Full disclosure: Don't take this as an endorsement of Wilson specifically. Give me Teddy Roosevelt any day, as he was a considerably more conscientious person who gave no fucks about stepping on toes and would happily have declared war on the Ottoman Empire (Michael Oren credits Wilson's failure to do so as one of the…

Go Dodgers.

Good. I work on Omniatlas and people could use some geopolitical literacy.

You don't have have to tell me. I'm an Israeli national. But nationalism in itself isn't something to brush off entirely.

I'd probably just conflate him with Josh Widdicombe.

This information has changed that scene from "too cute" to "appropriately cute."

Were you punching the air and singing in a Persian accent?

Because the British culture industry has become a monopoly over the last 20 years.

Wrong brother!