Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social‬

Why does he always look like he got caught doing something nasty?

Potatohead and a Pencil-neck Geek have thoughts.

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La Romana's defection and the trip back to Spain deserves more attention.
The Royal Navy were able to spirit away an entire Spanish division in one night!

I saw a similar picture of a US sailor stoking the Leviathan.
Obviously staged: five minutes of shovelling coal would have him covererd in dust.

Hurricane map from National Hurricane Center.

The National Hurrican Center is still up and running.
Otherwise the East Coast would get some very nasty surprises with little or no warning.

At least NOAA still tracks hurricanes.
Now let's see where Erin is heading.

Either possibly staged, or taken very early in their watch.
They're far too tidy for a coal burning ship.

Dude in the middle: "That photo is gonna come back to haunt me, isn't it?"

This is gonna be a fizzle regardless of all the razzmatazz Idiot Boy comes up with.

I'd say it was the long winters with nothing else to do.

Out of a population of about 41 million, it's still a pretty small number.

Has someone told Devin Nunes?

Neville Chamberlain proclaiming "Peace in Our Time," 1938.

Say what you like about Neville, he always had better hair than our current President.

Would this be a "trunk" novel, or a "sarcophagus" novel?

Primal Scream time, maybe?
Or does Operation Gomorrah count as "precision bombing?"

Designed by the Marquis de Sade?

Anything that drives him one step closer to a stroke is good.

I wonder how high pitched the screams will be when he's hauled up the steps to the scaffold.

His head will look nice on a stake some day.

In this case, you don't need to drive a stake though the heart.
It will work pretty much anywhere.

Why don't they just sent the SAS a-callin'?

Obviously humankind provides the causal connection. The first person to toss a fish to a cat created the servant-master relationship between cats and their people ever since.

What would grab the headlines would be the ferocious homeless people attacking the poor and defenseless goon squads sent after them.

Not a great analogy this time: the people of Ukraine are already fighting.
And Trump really has no means of enforcing any agreement between him and Putin.
Putin has forgotten the first rule of making rabbit stew: first catch your rabbit.

Tony Judt's great book "Postwar" has a great section on postwar France, including the Vichy officials that escaped the "Épuration légale."

They still have to win first.

When Vichy France collapsed in 1944, the Resistance carried out what became known as the "épuration sauvage," retaliatory and summary executions of known French collaborators with Nazi Germany, and Vichy officials.
Modern estimates claim between 10,000 and 15,000 extrajudicial executions.

A lot of Germans enjoyed the war when they were winning; after 1943 the Soviets were heading west and the Western Allies were starting to flatten and burn German cities on a regular basis.
By 1944 most Germans knew they were losing and the Allies weren't going to be very forgiving.