This is my favorite story.

How is Bring the Jubilee inverse? It sounds like a solid “Confederacy won the war and conquered Mexico, Union is a poor, technology-starved country at its mercy” novel.

Like Wally West in Justice League!

Riley knew that. They were a resultant of the counterfactuäl “if” in his first clause. Would’ve been clearer had he said “resultant Hindu cultures in the…” or some such.

Dœs Chicago even make bagels? The one bagel shop I ever went to in Chicago bragged that it shipped in NYC drinking water to boïl its bagels in. That seems like it points to a pretty clear answer.

They’re counting the Fort Sumpter

But rum>bourbon, so mojitos>mint juleps…

Uh, I’m pretty sure in Hipster Dairyland, it’s known as Neutral Milk!

Yes yes yes! This is the alternate history series I want. Just, like, go back in time and release a breeding stock of horses in North America in 1000 AD, or something more awesome like let the mammoths survive and become the default beast of burden, and give the Native Americans a strong central, negotiäting…

I think CNH did a fine job carefully explaining the difference. Confederates do get more mainstream respect, vis-à-vis statues and officially flown flags, which are exactly the examples s/he chose.

Instead of everything they said, I’d’ve been more reässured by just “we promise this: not a single whip will appear throughout the run of this show.”

Fixed. I guess since I already cited Justice League as my source, I don’t’ve t’explain that one.

Some people talk that way, even educated people like Curtis. I think it’s fine. It’s actually worse when the writers infuse their pedantry onto characters who wouldn’t have it, like when Fry (on Futurama) calls what most people call a “sabre-tooth tiger” the (taxonomically correct but more obscure) “sabre-tooth cat.”

I just read the description, and wow, just the part about Native Americans taking control of the Western United States is enough to sustain a fictional universe. Then you add in the return of magic (which, yes, is connected to the former), and people changing races to fantasy creatures. Then you add in corporate…

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Clearly the “Big Four” are Strange, Hulk, Nighthawk, and Namor, at least if you get all your Marvel information from Justice League.

Just the other night it was Eddie Izzard, Tim Minchin, and Kristen Schaal, three of my favorite comediäns. I love when that happens.

Or where the Maritimes do!

I can’t quote get you there… but close!
-USS Dragon (1861) was a small 118-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the start of the American Civil War.
-Temeraire is a series of nine novels… a reimagining of the epic events of the Napoleonic Wars with an air force—an air force of dragons, manned by crews of…

Underground Airlines is high on my list. I loved The Last Policeman.