Upvoted for "soulless glibathons."

Huh. New header photo.

Life Among The Apaches, by John C. Cremony. This was originally published in 1868, which explains why the author doesn't hesitate to declare that all Apaches are treacherous, bloodthirsty savages. Later, as he learns the language and socializes with the people, he walks that back somewhat:

What the…? *checks Amazon* Good Lord, there really is such an Usagi story. I guess I know what I'm putting on my Christmas list.

That header picture of Dipper & Mabel seems oddly off-model…

The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages. In 1943, 10-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is sent west to join her father who's doing some sort of hush-hush secret war work. <foreshadowing> Dewey passes time on the train by working on her radio set. She gets an assist from a young physicist named Dick Feynman who, it turns out, is…

Yes.

Also see: Tintin.

He meant "broadcast live" vivisection, I presume.

Will Sean O'Neal ever come back to regularly delight us with newswires?

I roasted a couple of chicken breasts two days ago. I had one for dinner then, made cobb salad yesterday, and today I'll make chicken soup with the leftovers.

No work of art has ever had a Paul-on-the-road-to-Damascus impact on me.

China Airborne, by James Fallows. The subject is China's attempt to develop a modern airline system. If you're an airplane buff, the book is a disappointment: the topics are larger issues like air traffic control, building new infrastructure, and creating an aeronautical industry to compete with Boeing and…

Yeah, me too. I've had my Filipino of these stupid puns.

Yes. Basic, but good.

To be fair, I was semi-trolling him. That is, what I wrote was reasonable but I guessed he was going to lose it and kept poking him just for the laughs.

No one will miss you.

"…saying something that someone somewhere in modern times would find offensive…"

Fine. The statement "everyone alive at that time would be considered racist by modern standards" is, logically, disproven by even a single counter-example.

The statement "everyone alive at that time would be considered racist" is, logically, disproven by even a single counter-example.