That seems fair.

Accidentally.

The Minions assassinate Pancho Villa.

It amuses me that those mountains could perfectly well be in Nevada.

The Minions meet Charles Ponzi.

Whimpering pleas in Minionese met with a hail of bullets.
Hell I had to watch *Ring of Bright Water* when I was eight!
Today's children should suffer equal horrors.

Generations of iconoclasts concur.

I think you mean The Sierra Nevada in Spain.

Lucky for him he didn't do that 100 years ago.

A Kelvinverse equivalent for Minions.

Apostasy (and possibly rape) in the first instance:
Lese - majesty in the second.
But I really meant that they were colourful characters rather than necessarily bad.

Maybe they met Frankenstein's Monster.

If The Minions actually killed Napoleon in 1812 their timeline has diverged a long way from ours.

They weren't frozen as far as I know. They just hung out in The Arctic for 150 years until they got bored.

Not very lawfully. They'd have needed to pass an SCU first.

Good old Alexander!

An alternative timeline perhaps.

You never know what will break through.

I hope she hasn't caused anyone to lose their access to banking.

The effects on English local government wouldn't be good.

With Jason Isaacs voicing Field Marshal Minion.

Their (mostly) well - meaning klutziness is appealing.

They're safe as long as they stay in Israel. But tours around the world (which Israelis are quite fond of after they escape the obligations of IDF service) may be inadvisable.

Maybe *The West* came to an end around 1850.

Makes sense.
You could call it *Atlantic Civilization* if you like.

I know!
Let's ask Oswald Spengler's ghost.

The ancient Egyptians are definitely Western.
The modern ones are more ambiguous.

Civilization is highly nomadic in a westward direction.

Well, well!
I'd never encountered that.

Daniel Singer's essay, *Solzhenitsyn: The Witness and The Prophet* (reprinted in his *The Road to Gdansk* (1981) ) struck me as very fair - minded and balanced when I read it many years ago.
Has Singer been forgotten?
He was a friend of my stepfather.