It being England and all, they are probably all going on the dole.

I'm a big Buffalo fan too.

I was the first troll. At some point in the 1980s I went on to a listserv devoted to Derrida and asked them to please give me a one sentence explanation of deconstruction.

Remnants of the French Canadian communities. Even people in their fifties (I guess that's old) can still speak some French up there.

Russia threatens nuclear holocaust and we are back to the themes, or tropes or whatever they're called now, of the 1980s.

Bloomberg concerned himself with the sizes of soft drinks and not this? Just the start of stories on what a horrorshow his administration will turn out to have been.

Hippster in 1921 meant he had a big hips.

Pretentious hat wearer. Must be a hippster.

There was an obsession with microfilms back in the day.

So it starts.

Fake Taft statement also. Taft didn't have to ride an elephant. He was an elephant! (Thanks, I'll be here all night. Try the veal.)

Fake. They didn't have Instagram in the 60s.

This is extremely sad. My sympathies to his family and those who knew him personally.

Nicely written. I like how you use and link to your sources.

Is this whole thing art deco? I'm not up on my art history.

The English love this stuff don't they. Dr. Who, Tolkien, Harry Potter, C.S. Lewis' Narnia books. Fantasies about spiritual powers and cosmic struggles between good and evil. I think it's their Druid background coming through. The English remain Druids underneath. Gardens too, and Merlin.

I sense a Seinfeld episode coming on here.

I was searching for the fall into the street out of the speakeasy noise.

Yeah, they talked in that fast, out-of-the-side-of-the-mouth way.

I don't know there may be an upside. You might make new friends! (With that white supremacist in Idaho.)