@Tarbosaur

The Pinto was a cool car, except for the, you know, exploding part!

The corporal says to him quietly, "Keep crying, Porter. You're crying because you're wounded. You don't have to be bleeding to be wounded; you just had one battle too many."
Few, even modern films have done this as good.

Watching what I think is one of the all time great war movies: A Walk in the Sun. It has one of the most subtle gut wrenching scenes. The platoon sergeant, a vet who has seen plenty of action, can no longer take it and he breaks down burying his face in the dirt.

#Veteransday2025 How I misspent my youth.

black and white drawing, of a map of China, from the 1665 book "An Embassy from the East-India Company to the Emperor of China." It includes borders and drawings of trees.

🚨⚠️ New blog post ⚠️🚨
Unlocking the mysteries of a Magdalen College treasure. Read our latest blog post, written by our lovely volunteer Yanjing, all about our 1665 volume "An Embassy from the East-India Company to the Emperor of China." www.magd.ox.ac.uk/blog/from-tw...

Paw Paw has gotten into the cooking sherry again...

American Suburbs Have a Financial Secret Municipal bonds have become an unavoidable part of local governance—and their costs divide rich towns from poor ones.

Thrilled to see my former student @m-r-glass.bsky.social's brilliant first book reviewed in @theatlantic.com.

#VETERANSday25 I want to remember my dad Henry who fought the war in Korea on a half track called a 'meat chopper.' He wasn't a loud man like today' so called 'Alpha Males.' But he could kick your ass up one side of the street then down the other and never raise his voice.

Even more telling, these guys are all service dodgers.

Ladies, if there is a man in your life who insists on calling you 'Baby Girl.' Dump him immediately. It's never going to work out.

I like to compare things, size wise, to a Chifforobe: Is is smaller than a Chifforobe, the same size as a Chifforobe, or larger than a Chifforobe?
This takes the confusion out of everything.

"On Earth, two hundred years ago...I, was a prince..."

If I had known Thomas Eakins
I would have bought that man a black guitar to play...

All these anti-university types are just jealous they couldn't get in because they weren't smart enough.

Wait...wait...I thought @Realdonaldtrump ended this war?

How 'true' is North?

It's hard to believe that these two photos are of the same person.

1978: I got off the plane in Frankfurt in what used to be West Germany. Europe was so old and I was so young. But I was now an Soldier/Scholar, and that's all that mattered to me. I started writing secretly about my experiences which became 45 years later my autobiography, The Monster of Newark.

My dad in the 1950s and me in the 1980s served to keep the Commies out. Now @realdonaldtrumppar.bsky.social is just letting them take it. Makes me wonder what it was all for.

Let's hope the wind is blowing towards Moscow.

I always told my students my role as their professor is not to get them to think like me...but to think.

Even the Nazis showed their faces.

#Trump doesn't think Alaska is part of the United States.

How our hero, Columbus, has fallen | Opinion We seem to need to have heroes, but we’re often not sure what to do with them.

Tomorrow is Indigenous People's Day, I mean #ColumbusDay or something. In honor I'm rerunning this little pram I wrote back in 2021.
www.nj.com/opinion/2021...

America’s Origin Stories and Myths Professor Buzzkill Dr. Brian Regal joins us to discuss some of the stories and myths about who “discovered” America, and what the continued popularity of those myths tell us

It's almost Indigenous People's Day. I've been on a hundred podcasts, one of my favorites is still @buzzkillprof.bsky.social

professorbuzzkill.com/2024/01/09/a...

"Seven days to Bellus! Waste anything but time!"

I'm waiting for the day when someone asks him about his wife Melania, and he says, "Who?"

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

Next Monday is Indigenous People's day. So @realDonaldTrump
wants everyone to read my book on who discovered America: Spoiler alert, it wasn't #Columbus