- Fonts, typefaces and all things typographical (I love Typography (ILT)) Get your linotype geek on.
Virus trading cards (Table Top Whale) Un-dirty-word-believably cool.
- Boy on Burning Deck – What the Uss Donald Cook and the Polish Navy Were Doing off Kaliningrad When They Were Buzzed by the Russian Airforce (Dances With Bears) The US and Poland were practicing attacking Kaliningrad.
- Origins of feudalism in the West (Understanding Society) Get your history geek on.
- College Student Is Removed From Flight After Speaking Arabic on Plane (The New York Times) Live in obedient fear, citizen.
- The Invisibility of U.S. Oligarchs: The Case of Penny Pritzker (Sam Husseini) If you read anything today, read this. Also note the Pritzker bankrolled Obama's political career almost from day one, and profited mightily from sub prime loans at a bank which was at the time the biggest bank failure ever. This explains a lot about why the banksters walked.
- Panama Papers: More Trouble For The West Than Russia (Forbes) Notable for it being published by that bastion of crony capitalism, Forbes magazine.
- What Happens When You Drink an Entire Bottle of Weed Lube (Broadly) Drinking a bottle of lube, even if it does not contain 450mg of THC (it's intended to be sprayed lightly the genitals) will not end well.
- The People Want Tyrion Lannister for President (Esquire) "Everyone's favorite Game of Thrones character beat Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in an online poll."
- How a Simple Request Got Me Blacklisted by the Pentagon (The Intercept) Of note is that it appears that Africom is concealing a lot of misdeeds by its troops with no national security justification.
He also had the best cameo ever on Animaniacs, which says a lot: (Actual dialogue from the show)
H/t JR at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.
*Chomaytz is leavened bread, which is forbidden during the days of Pesach (Passover).
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ReplyDeleteRegarding the Feudalism article, it was a hoot.
I have read the source he speaks of, Before France and Germany, and can recommend it. The book is rather explicit in _not_ being an exploration of the formation of the feudal state.
The author of the blog here does a wonderful neo-Marxist job of trying to shoehorn the classic hierarchy of modes of production into the fall of the Roman empire.
I was really nostalgic for college reading that.
Viz. The Boy on the Burning deck. The article does gloss one important fact in this attack on Kalinengrad, and Russia's warnings. It is mentioned, but only in passing.