No, it didn’t, because the beginning of World War II is not something to discover, it is something to define. Defining World War II as beginning on September 1, 1939, is a matter of convention. A lot of things in history are defined conventionally: the end of World War I, the end of the War of 1812, the end of the…

The Japanese had been fighting continuously in China since 1931. They were still “pacifying” Manchuria when the 2nd Sino-Japanese War began. And I could teach 8th grade history without opening the manual. I could’ve taught high-school history back when I actually was in high school. You’re on my turf.

Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931. How racist are you again?

Nobody who’s not trying to be a smart-ass counts World War II as starting in 1937.

Lil Hands

Take your star and hide it in the “2013 summer vacation photos” folder.

If they’d paid any attention to Finn in the last film, they would probably have made him Rey’s father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate. The less screen time you had in that fiasco, the less you sucked.

If Rey and Kylo were this trilogy’s idea of developed characters, I don’t think he missed out on much.

Was any of this even meant to not be a boondoggle? Given how much these people like to bitch about “Hollywood liberals,” I find it more likely that the point of the scheme was to funnel government money into the pockets of some well-connected parasites. And as graft, this was a success.

The Senate’s inability to agree to a stimulus is going to hang around the neck of every GOP senator in a close race for reelection. It would seem that the culprit there were Senate Republicans who are either not on the ballot or in a safe seat - the sort of people who have political cover to tell desperate voters that…

Trump could’ve used the open Supreme Court seat to rally voters who were keen on a conservative majority on the USSC but not on his reelection. The sort of voters who were pumped up by the tax cut (or at least the idea of one) and the withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal but realized long ago that Trump was unfit for…

This season has felt like a pale imitation of a better show, and if I had to pinpoint one flaw that has dragged it down above all others, I’d happily point to the speechifying by the criminals. I could probably count on the fingers of one hand all the speeches this season that have been memorable in and of themselves,…

Can we stop this bullshit? There is no procedural trick that would’ve kept that seat open until January. None. There was maybe a possibility of keeping the seat open past Election Day, and a very strong strategic argument against wanting to achieve that.

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That’s fine and all, but let’s not pretend that if Sacha Baron Cohen had stereotyped Kazakhstan as Middle Eastern rather than Eastern European - and it really is neither - the exact same Americans would be fine with it.

No, he can’t. Have you ever seen an ethnic Kazakh? He’s have to do yellowface.

Yesterday I finally watched Zodiac, and today I read this. Can I get a solved mystery for a change?

Generation AA, followed by Generation AB, Generation AC, and so on.

If you mean why he released the interview himself, I think it’s obvious he’s trying to lower the viewership for that episode of 60 Minutes, which he can then gloat about as evidence that Real Americans are on his side.

I know, but I mean in the sense of being the only one in Gruber’s crew to make it out alive. The sole survivor.