Where The Wild Things Are Not.

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

Favorites aside, his profound ruminations on Richard III are what now keep him up at night and vexed. Why would anyone think that Gloucester was the bad guy? Why would no one give him a horse? Also he recites Shelley by heart and wonders why Ozymandias didn't build a really, really big arch.

Fifty-six pitchers were used in the Guardians-White Sox series. Batters managed only 63 hits while striking out 112 times. I'm happy for Cleveland and their fans but this brand of baseball sucks ass.

I think it’s Harpo, Groucho, Chico, Zeppo, L-R.

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now members of Congress are being denied the ability to see the damage at these bases because there's a coverup underway. There's a coverup underway to try to hide the cost of this war and the debacle it has caused in the region."

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Pride and Racial Prejudice

highly recommended

Damen?

Do you know how hard it is to lose the war if you're the United States? It's about as unlikely as bankrupting a casino.

The Annenberg Annals.

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

Ruin a book by adding a word Naked Lunch Lady

Ruin a book by adding a word Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret Thatcher

Norway’s former Chief of Defence, General Sverre Diesen: “Under the current Trump administration, we cannot consider the United States our ally. Trump’s America is a hostile actor that, in the event of a conflict in Europe, would side with Russia rather than with us and other European countries.”

Johnny Cash released his debut album on this date in 1957.