And you can use that time waiting for your delivery to remind your LGBTQ friends and family that your love of gross fast food is more important than their equality! Thank you, Kate Bernot!

Going OT here: The Minneapolis Institute of Art is currently hosting “Egypt’s Sunken Cities.” These relics are chiefly from Egypt’s Ptolemaic period, but they are none the less fascinating. Runs through April, and if you’ve had only limited chances to see the glory of Egypt in person, as have I, it’s absolutely…

Akhenaten defaced the images of the gods at a fairly late period of his reign when it looks like Egypt became pretty much a police state not too dissimilar to North Korea where the populace worshipped pharaoh and only the royal family received the blessings of the Aten. I don’t think he did much to deface his…

He’s my favorite honky.

The Temple of Hatshepsut is amazing and, even if you don’t think you know it, you’ve seen it.

Cleopatra VII doesn’t have anything like it. She was also the last true Pharoanic ruler.

On the other hand, she’s one of the stars of arguably the best Asterix comic.

As I recall, Akhenaten, a weirdo who merits an article of his own both tried to do it to pretty much everyone else and lot of successors did it to him as well.

Egypt had 2000 years of history recorded on hieroglyphs before Hatshepsut was born. Egypt’s empire included one of the first human cities, Jericho, which had been first built 5500 years before Egyptian hieroglyphs appeared.

There’s more history between the construction of the pyramids and Cleopatra than between Cleopatra and the present day.

Fair enough. In that case, we all await your easily assembled annotated history of the past 200 years.

I didn’t think all of the defacing was business as usual, just some of it. Really the only person who could have possibly had a grudge that sore against her was Thutmose, and the defacing didn’t happen right from the start of his sole reign, so it likely wasn’t him. Unfortunately we really don’t know much about…

I’ve red a couple of books about Hatshepsut and the beard the Pharoahs wore was purely ceremonial, not their real hair. Hatshepsut just adopted this tradition, so no one was trying to make her out a man at a later date. Also, some of the damage to her image might have just been caused by the Egyptians recycling stuff.…

“Rusty Trawler” lives, and likely has no more money of his own than had the original.

It’s safe to say JKR’s a bit of a mixed bag, persona- and public-statement-wise. But surely she is allowed to impose consequences on someone who stole from her, and I don’t think “she has so much money, who cares about a measly five figures and a few cats” is a valid argument. IF it happened, it’s a violation of…

Those pinstripes aren’t working.

I think Vegas is a given, because it wouldn’t be getting a team for the city or the citizens, but for the tourist dollar. They could field a barely competitive team and probably still draw three million a year from tourists who’d like to catch a game or two while they’re in town.

Nah. I like that the Mets have the place to themselves.

Considering the fact that most neo-Nazi groups are based around christian identity, yeah, you’re right.  

If my child stopped playing video games and started going to church, I would be very concerned.

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story, “Why the Inheritance Tax Is a Good Idea.”