Apparently it caused an explosion.
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I refrained from posting anything about the tenth anniversary of 9/11, because I have said everything I had to say about that day, and I believe at this point our national fondness for clawing at the wound has reached a level of psychological pathology that should see a large segment of our population heavily medicated and incarcerated in a ( Read more... )

So! Unless you've been living in a cave in Borneo without net access for the last week or two, you know that Wikileaks has been planning the release of an assload of US diplomatic correspondence. Both the government and many major news outlets have been in full damage control/thunderous condemnation of those dangerous rogue leaky leakers much of ( Read more... )

The reason why many textbooks have a bias against the Crusades and, subsequently, the Crusaders is because the fucking Crusades were a two-century-long orgy of rape and pillage against everything that moved in the middle east and certain less-Christian-than-thou portions of Europe, only barely disguised by a threadbare cloak of piety in the first ( Read more... )