Tom Waits can re-record one of his great songs as “The History Book’s Been Drinking, Not Me”.

The White Queen said she’d sometimes believed “as many as” six impossible things before breakfast. A quaint relic of a much slower time, that number. Nowadays, can a person avoid being confronted with fewer than sixty impossible things before breakfast? I suppose if they have no internet access, leave the radio and TV…

Yeah, but the Octoroons only formed when the Quadroons split.

2016 will not be remembered kindly by our history books.

Maybe, being from Manitoba, your friend has the impression it’s analogous to Métis. (For those outside of Canadia: many in Manitoba and elsewhere in the west identify themselves that way).

No doubt. So much for various overly-sympathetic suggestions that she’s been subtly trolling him, what with the “pussy bow” blouse, the demand that People magazine retract some absolutely trivial portion of the Stoynoff story instead of the main accusation, etc. Newp. On the evidence of this interview, she’s drunk the…

Why, thank’ee, pilgrim. Lo and behold, and yea verily, hath it come to pass. Truly doth Kinja work in mysterious ways, its wonders to perform.

Alas, no. Fairly universal. Beats hell outta me why (some) Canadians are proud of a 200-year-old act of (British) Royal Navy vandalism. And I’ve lived here all my life.

The “we” part. It was the British. And only in retaliation for the USians having burned down York. Either way: why be proud about the White House having been burned down? Not a military target.

Nah, it’s cool. The Holy Roman Emperor tried sending an invasion force of Hessians. But winter weather foiled the plan. Their auto-gyro blades iced up, don’t you know.

Sounds like the Stonecutters were a little slow off the mark in that case, but eventually got it together.

I’m suddenly thinking of that woman on TV in Alaska — was she a weather forecaster? — who started talking about marijuana legalization during a broadcast, then said “fuck it, I quit”, i.e. to work full time on her medical-marijuana business or similar. And we can assume whatever pressure she was experiencing had to be…

They may have to titrate them, just for logistical reasons. If they all come to light at once, will the IntraToobZ have all the electrons and photons needed to convey them, or will it run short? We shall, proverbially, see.

I’d somehow forgotten about that, or repressed the memory. Dreadful thought that the US might join the list of those unfortunate countries with election-day violence. Even if it doesn’t, it would be nice to see Trump ending up in the dock for incitement, and his lousy First Amendment arguments laughed out of court.

I’m growing both more confident Clinton will win and more nervous what might happen on election day itself.

I guess I should have thunk bigly. At this rate he’ll steam across the Cosby Line without breaking a sweat.

I’d rather make book on how many more women come forward with similar accounts before Election Day. I’ll bet it averages out to more than one per day.

I’m surprised he said ten years. He told Howard Stern he had no interest in hitting on any woman older than 35. But asked what his lower age limit might be, he said 12.

Chivalry ain’t extinct, after all.

Yes, as everyone knows, book-learnin’ is worse than useless.