Commissar Geo Bartlette (31st Harakoni Warhawks)

Current state of NY Penn->LA Union rail in this country is a total of 3,224 miles in 67 hours, assuming no delays and with a half-day layover at Union Station, Chicago. Which pretty much will be eaten up by 48's trip westbound from Albany. Usually.

Have reached the original end point of Macross. Even thought I have not reached the real end. This anime has done something that I have not seen something else done since the first time I saw the original Gundam. Hell I might even say it surpasses every other mecha I seen so far.

Praise Tomino for making Tatsunoko realize they had to do a real robot to compete with Sunrise. Macross is a complete gem though. Crazy that it existed BEFORE TOPGUN

New map proposal for 7v7 Ranked or Clan Battle.

Local war understander cannot comprehend reasons to eliminate the entire senior political and military leadership of an adversry as the opening move of a war aside from regime change

Anybody who thinks a Mazda MX-5 is a "hairdresser's car" has no idea about cars. Four generations since 1989, a heritage approaching that of the Porsche 911, the top selling sportscar of all time and a car that basically every motoring journalist likes.

> Startup accused of fraud > Check bios of both founders > Forbes 30 under 30

If Franz Ferdinand were killed today, a significant chunk of X would believe it was an inside job conducted by Conrad von Hötzendorf and Franz Joseph.

Timely reminder of when this guy reviewed that guy... Iggy Pop on Gibbon's Decline and Fall (Classics Ireland, 1995): Caesar Lives by Iggy Pop In 1982, horrified by the meanness, tedium and depravity of my existence as I toured the American South playing rock and roll music and going crazy in public, I purchased an abridged copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Dero Saunders, Penguin). The grandeur of the subject appealed to me, as did the cameo illustration of Edward Gibbon, the author, on the front cover. He looked like a heavy dude. Being in a political business, I had long made a habit of reading biographies of wilful characters — Hitler, Churchill, MacArthur, Brando — with large profiles, and I also enjoyed books on war and political intrigue, as I could relate the action to my own situation in the music business, which is not about music at all, but is a kind of religion-rental. I would read with pleasure around 4 am, with my drugs and whisky in cheap motels, savouring the clash of beliefs, personalities and values, played out on antiquity’s stage by crowds of the vulgar, led by huge archetypal characters. And that was the end of that. Or so I thought. Eleven years later I stood in a dilapidated but elegant room in a rotting mansion in New Orleans, and listened as a piece of music strange to my ears pulled me back to ancient Rome and called forth those ghosts to merge in hilarious, bilious pretence with the Schwartzkopfs, Schwartzeneggers and Sheratons of modern American money and muscle myth. Out of me poured information I had no idea I ever knew, let alone retained, in an extemporaneous soliloquy I called ‘Caesar’. When I listened back, it made me laugh my ass off because it was so true. America is Rome. Of course, why shouldn’t it be? All of Western life and institutions today are traceable to the Romans and their world. We are all Roman children for better or worse. The best part of this experience came after the fact — my wife gave me a beautiful edition in three volumes of the magnificent original unabridged Decline and Fall, and since then the pleasure and profit have been all mine as I enjoy the wonderful language, organization and scope of this masterwork. Here are just some of the ways I benefit: I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there were others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day. I learn much about the way our society really works, because the system-origins — military, religious, political, colonial, agricultural, financial — are all there to be scrutinized in their infancy. I have gained perspective. The language in which the book is written is rich and complete, as the language of today is not. I find out how little I know. I am inspired by the will and erudition which enabled Gibbon to complete a work of twenty-odd years. The guy stuck with things. I urge anyone who wants life on earth to really come alive for them to enjoy the beautiful ancestral ancient world.

She tugs on my Bone till I JASSM

We should ban tractors! They replaced 30 hardworking dudes with one guy and a diesel engine. Absolutely devastating for shovel-based employment. Or… fuckin maybe replacing labor with productivity has always been the point.

If Kristin Stewart really wants to be edgy and subversive she should make a movie about the Columbia disaster. Seven people sentenced to death by apathetic bureaucrats and no one ever really held accountable. There’s a compelling story here:

@CyborgPeds Bluto Blutarski must have known, and it’s why he became president.

Remember, the signal to attack was “Torah! Torah! Torah!”

@HistoricHub And he beat the draft, smart

@HistoricHub My take at the time was we didn’t want them, anyway. Their loss.

I still find it funny that not one single member of CCR was from the southern United States. Every one of them was born and raised in the El Cerrito area of San Francisco. Literally Californian college yuppies larping as southerners. Weird, huh?

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