I just heard a guest on NPR’s 1A describe Kharg as the “island that blocks the strait of Hormuz” Do none of y’all know how to read maps?

Bunny!

I was hoping for a headline like “Death Kicks Chuck Norris’s Ass!”

The Jim Croce theory of US Foreign Policy:
Republicans are people who didn’t listen to the end of “Bad Bad Leroy Brown”
Democrats are people who didn’t listen to the end of “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim”

BRONWEN - Yma o Hyd (with translation) YouTube video by Bronwen Lewis

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We're still here

Pete Hegseth wished on a monkey’s paw that he could be a real Crusader and he got Reynaud de Chatillon.

Roman silver denarius struck by Publius Licinius Crassus who would later lose his head fighting the Parthians

One of the things missing in much of the talk about the crises of the Roman Empire and the frontiers of that entity is that there might not have been any crises had those frontiers not encroached on other people. Rome didn't have a Germanic problem. The world had a Roman problem.

"If only Cuba would surrender then they wouldn't have any more power outages."
Puerto Rico stares directly into the camera.

As a rule whenever in history one group of people refers to another group of people as a “question” you can be assured that the people asking the “question” are a bunch of assholes.

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Love it!

"It's just like a banana republic!"
Whose fruit companies did you think those were?

Dean Abel was better.

Deep Blue Sea 3 was better than Deep Blue Sea 2 by far but neither is in the same league as the original. The Jaws, Meg and Sharknado franchises are all more consistent in terms of production values and storytelling comparatively

Hector and Achilles for a little change of pace today

Maybe I’m an optimist but on my apple juice universe the dad shows up, has a moment of clarity and after a long pause puts his hand on Cameron’s shoulder and says “Fuck it, let’s go bowling.”

I’ve seen the 2nd one and it’s not terrible but nowhere near the brilliance of the first one. I’ll let you know about #3 shortly

Deep Blue Something

Children of a Lesser Jaws

You go in the cage. Shark goes in the water. Cage goes into the cage. Wait...what?

“We’re really gonna get them in the 1934 midterms”
🙄

cover of Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

“The empire had been around for so long, had weathered so many storms, had reinvigorated itself with such energy, and had imprinted itself so completely into the landscape of the world, that no one dreamed that it would end. Yet end it did.”

TV commentators: This bill to suspend all elections indefinitely will surely hurt representatives from swing districts in the midterms.

Cover of Martyr by Kaveh Akbar

Cover of Washing My Mother’s Body by Joy Harjo

Finished these recently and can recommend them