Reverse Clue, guess the victim: Stalin's henchman, pickaxe, Mexico City.

I'm generally against state-sponsored prisons and violent punishment other than self-defense, so I think for her performance in Congress when being questioned, Pam Bondi should be exiled and never be tolerated again on American soil.

A lecture full of fun, if sad, anecdotes about monopoly, competition, regulation, and a little government violence. Consider this tidbit: Imagine an airplane built in 1920 and compare it to one built in 1970. Then become aware of the fact that there were more commercial airlines in the United States in the 1920s than in the 1970s. 😄

Riddle me this

Grand speech and well, Rapture seemed to have been pretty good while it lasted 😄

If the films are to be believed, we ought to be able to travel through the solar system by 2001 at the latest.

Raising home price via political means is certainly the way to make America great again. Remember that time in the 60s, when - adjusted for inflation - the average American citizen way way wealthier than today? Yeah nobody could afford to buy a house back then, they all lived in trailer parks while feeding four children on a single income.

Listening to the history of the Norse settlement of Greenland taught me one thing: To get farmland going way up North, you need to shit all over it.

Believe it or not, right wing authoritarianism is not the only possible answer to left wing authoritarianism. And those who say that "we" must oppress the people and force them to think our way in order for "them" to be unable to accumulate power is the same type of narrow-minded aggressive power-grabbing of which you accused "them" to begin with. Or to put it differently: "He who fights monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you" - Friedrich Nietzsche

Owning nothing sure is expensive.

I like that ribbon type old-timey bookmark that beautifully bound books still have. Alas, I don't have the means to buy a whole lot of those so I mostly read print-on-demand paperbacks by fantastic, yet nearly forgotten authors. So I built myself a crooked little brass clip with a ribbon attached to enjoy some classic bookmarking action on any old pile of recycled paper I have on my puny bookshelf. Not an ad, not a piece of art, just a fun side project that didn't require a computer for once 😄