Thank you! And ah, the Germans! So articulate. Yet to the untrained ear, it all sounds kind of like angrily shouting names of sausages.

It’s an insane request to make of teachers, like most of the requests made of them.

I think it was another article on Jez that was also (rightfully) lamenting American history classes - it’s just too much to expect to cover thoroughly in a year of high school. With WWII, I don’t know how you allocate time between the immense human tragedy and the military and governmental implications. Especially in…

That makes sense, but I missed the follow up - do we still need a defense system or did King Kong take care of everything?

The head-meets-neck part or what he did there? I don’t know of one... I bet the Germans have one, probably for both and probably a name to call a guy who shaves like that. I need to learn German.

Jawlines should both be shaved and referred to as neck-meets-head lines.

I know it’s not right, but things have been so crazy that now it’s just like... the scrawny racist harassing Jim Acosta about “cosmopolitan bias” is a little boring.

Eh, I don’t know a lot of “fun facts” that are actually fun. I associate them more with trivia for forced socializing. I’ve probably heard ones that are less fun than Japan’s ability to produce nuclear weapons :)

That’s probably a fact, but I’m not so sure about fun.

If more people took away something from war movies other than “blowing stuff up is awesome,” I think the world might be a very different place.

Is WWII on the list of things they don’t teach in schools now? Don’t think so, but it’s hard to keep up. I know a lot of American history classes that only got up to the end of WWII and even more people who might not make the inference that no nukes in Japan would be part of any kind of peace treaty. Not to mention…

I’d really be curious to know how many readers immediately know why Japan didn’t become a nuclear power. I’m not undereducated, but it wasn’t until I got to the line about following Japan’s lead that I thought about it...

It’s nice to see the US is not alone in our hypocrisy and that our government is not the only one busy doing stuff that ultimately it knows has literally no chance of success.

I think I’ve figured out the rules: most people are trash and everything is awful.

Not get rid of... just round up until we can do some extreme vetting and really figure out what’s going on. But yeah, keep me updated on the schedule.

Automatic venue deal-breaker.

Luckily, they just cut $200 million from teen pregnancy prevention programs, including research programs that are halfway done and have now collected a couple years worth of data that will just be thrown out... http://www.teenvogue.com/story/teen-pregnancy-prevention-funding-trump-cuts

I love this kid, but I’m glad Bolling didn’t try the Batman defense:

Ah, Colbert! I don’t know whether to hope the Mooch takes some time to maybe meet his baby now or to just hope he really does hibernate :)

I empathize...