MacArthur was a bit crazy in that regard…

Ocarina of Time

I can sing the Blazing Saddles theme song pretty decent. Final offer.

I was thinking about Khashoggi, but fair point.

I mean, the Saudis did it a few years ago and we really didn’t raise much of a stink.

Hmm. Kinda missed a golden opportunity to call the paper the Sun Sun.

Tangentially related. I watched a pretty interesting documentary many years ago about avant-garde art in Weimar Germany. Back in the days of the kaiser and before, if you painted a horse it damn well better look like a horse. During the third reich, if you painted a horse it damn well better have hitler on it. But during the interwar years there was quite an explosion of weird shit from the German art community.

Then, of course, the war happened and all that shit ended, just like it’s happening in Russia now. Not that America did much better back then. Frank Capra was directing WWII propaganda films and Bugs Bunny was flying a B-29.

This is what I keep trying to tell people about this war. There are no good guys. There is no right side of history to be on.

There are sides. And people are perfectly welcome and justified to take a side. But you have to understand that whichever side you take, they have done terrible things to innocent people for terrible reasons.