Musings

Mon May 7
“ Winning WWII was the ultimate joint effort. But if you go to school in America, you graduate with the impression that the United States was 90% of that victory.

Our version paints Great Britain as a plucky and resourceful holdout against Hitler, on the verge of falling. Russia is portrayed as a bunch of hobos with flintlock rifles who got lucky because the Nazis didn’t have warm coats. The French are presented as beret-wearing cheese-eaters taking German lessons. Scott Adams
Fri May 4
“ It reminds me a bit of The Dark Crystal, where the old, ugly puppets would suck the life juice out of the innocent, cute puppets to prolong their miserable existence. You know how that turned out… reddit comment on MS buying Y!
Thu May 3
“ The fact is that if the fantastical is to flourish it must lay down the conditions of its magic and abide by them; otherwise, we feel cheated. (Tolkien knew this better than anyone.) Anthony Lane
irony