Is it linear? I’m willing to absorb a 2% increase in grocery prices if the workers get a 100% raise.

Worse than Napoleon destroying the Holy Roman Empire? TBD.

That’s how I always did it. The computation has to be done in one frame or another; Einstein gave me top-cover when I was called on to defend my choice.

Europe will not be able to take the UK seriously in such a forum for a very long time.

“Sustainable” for colonies probably should contain a bit about being profitable to the mother country.

A river is a polarizing filter. (since the host is all about polarization these days :-) It makes lengthwise transportation much faster. Transversely it's an obstacle, especially to infantry. Although, come to think of it, interstate highways are the biggest obstacles on my daily commute, so maybe a river is a highway.

This reminded me of the comment by the Grand Duke Nicholas, “I disapprove of war because it spoils the armies.” Trying to track down the citation, and failing, I nevertheless came across this essay, which seems to paint the current CINC perfectly. https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/military-review/Archives/English/Dir-Select/military-review-july-1986.pdf

My professor was fond of pointing out places where well-respected physicists revealed that they still had luminiferous aether in their mental model of the world. Never thought I’d hear someone say that was a good thing.

I feel like any attempt to characterize an “American Way” view of the university should mention football.

I kinda want to subscribe to that journal.

I’m reading John Crowley’s Ka at the moment, so I have to point out that to a crow, ravens aren’t black.

If you take that advice, I’d appreciate links to good stuff. My dilettantish attempts have all led me into bogs of dubious and unsourced assertions.

I love the idea that the symbol for a pawnbroker’s shop can be interpreted as low-hanging fruit. I shall be stealing it forthwith.

Even simpler: the women were busy. The men were not.

Reminds me of Parmentier’s potato patch, at a time when the French refused to eat them. He posted armed guards, who were instructed to accept all bribes from midnight poachers.

Does that apply to Eric & Don Jr.?

Well put. And we didn't even have to bring in the Norsemen.

Works fine on an iPad. I think we need to re-popularize he term “servile arts” for the things universities teach that aren’t liberal arts.

The USA benefited from German liberal reformers fleeing the wreckage of the revolution manquée of 1848. Fair is fair.

Lots of classes can use #3. What role has Eli Whitney’s idea of “interchangeable parts” played in Modernist literature?

"A maxim of the Zen Bureaucrat: you can not do only one thing."

Sorry, New York. Sorry, Frankfurt.

If anyone is wondering, a Rackaboor is like a Sidehill Gouger, but much more ill-tempered. Like the difference between a wild hog and a groundhog.

Now, I’m not like that. I can’t sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can’t help it. - Three Men in a Boat

He doesn’t go on a map. Trump is a massless boson. Observing him in one place at one moment annihilates the possibility of predicting where he will be at any time in the future.