Tonight on my feed, a reminder of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald (enshrined in song), a Leonard Cohen post, something about Google, and 25 posts about the election.
I understand that this is recent news. I don't care. I have never cared. Nor are most of the political posts particularly interesting or insightful.
I am selfish. You may or may not know it, but I use all of you here to find things to read that I can't find for myself. This is what matters to me. Please post more music. Please post more science. Please post more trip reports. Please post more urban exploration blogs (wait that was me).
Thank you.
You can filter tags. Filtering #sillyseason and #seriousseason will probably hide most of it from you.
be the change The last thing you posted was about electoral politics. Of the seven things I've posted in the past day, two of them aren't. And while I think it's safe to say that world news has a certain singular focus at the moment, I invite you to point the focus somewhere else.
i mean i'm watching the x files want to talk about the x files
currently on season...3? first time watching the series, really. more importantly I found somebody in my age bracket who also watches The West Wing.
I think I made it through Season 1. Prolly gonna have to try again at some point. West Wing season 4 was incredible. Season1 was tedious. I think I missed an episode in Season 5 and was never able to catch up again. That's kinda what happened to me on Revenge, minus the "incredible" part.
It's interesting how some historians are now starting to look at wwI and wwII as one war with a pause in between. There was a segment on the stocks and jocks podcast that I listen to on that idea and I found it to be an interesting way to look at that part of our history
Not recently eitherOn 11 November 1918 Foch accepted the German request for an armistice. Foch advocated peace terms that would make Germany unable to pose a threat to France ever again, but was overruled by the British and Americans for being too in favor of French interests. When the Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, Foch declared, due to France not being allowed to annex the Rhineland or occupy the area for a period of thirty years, "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years". His words proved prophetic: the Second World War started twenty years and 64 days later.
I don't know that that's entirely fair. Tuchman was one who pointed out that "armistice" doesn't mean "peace" and that a country that has not been invaded is a country that doesn't feel beaten. Margaret McMillan certainly extended no love to the Nazis, going as far arguing that Germany's economic collapse had fuckall to do with reparations.
Too many degrees of freedom to make that remarkable, but it does give me an opportunity to point out that no one seems to have recognized the significance of D. B. Cooper II's drop coordinates at 44.44N 111.1 W. There's a story on Wikipedia or somewhere that is interesting and only mostly hinges on politics.the total was 11.11
I'm one of the biggest offenders and I agree. I'm burnt out on the subject too but I can't stop worrying about it. I get it though. We're surrounded on all sides by this shit the least we could do is find a quiet place here. I posted this earlier if that's your thing: I tried.