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PSA: f you are headed to the World Baseball Classic you can bring your bongos, but you've got to leave your vuvuzela at home:

"And we call ourselves the human race.” These declassified documents from 1961 prove that the military leadership was prepared to trigger a nuclear apocalypse over a single standoff in Berlin. When the war hungry insane Joint Chiefs briefed JFK on their nuclear war plan, SIOP-62, they laid out the math for an all-out "spasm" attack designed to kill over 200 million people in a single afternoon. On Page 2 of this memo, you can see the literal evidence where they estimate wiping out 54% of the Soviet population and 71% of their cities instantly and they even admitted these numbers were "underestimated" because they didn't count the millions who would die slowly from radiation. JFK was so repulsed by the cold, calculated way these insane crackpots talked about mass murder that he famously walked out of the briefing, turning to his Secretary of State and saying, "And we call ourselves the human race." While Kennedy was desperately looking for a diplomatic way to avoid World War III, the Joint Chiefs were trying to bully him into a global graveyard. This document is the ultimate proof that the Pentagon was being run by people who didn't care about humanity, and it shows exactly why the relationship between JFK and the military became a total death struggle.

Breaking: Pope Leo calls for an end to "Orwellian" anti-free speech laws.

Is it just me or is Miami surprisingly affordable?

Clearly the Metropolitan Opera’s staging of Wagner’s Ring cycle

If you understand this reference, you are one of us.