I was just watching the Simpsons episode "Bart of Darkness", which is a parody of the 1954 film "Rear Window". My son did not know the references to "Rear window", which… (View Post)

Your wet dream: thousands, or millions, dead; based on a series of conditionals. (View Post)

You need to see the way Russia and Putin works. They spit out as many different lines as possible, designed to confuse and appeal to as many people as possible. We saw this with MH17, where a new lin… (View Post)

It isn't even appeasement. It's surrender. (View Post)

I'm currently listening to the excellent 'revolutions' podcast (about halfway through the Russian revolutions); and it strikes me that revolutions rarely go the way that the people who… (View Post)