"Language Difficulties As Noted On A Menu In A German-Staffed U.S. Army Mess"

1948, Nuremberg

Brekfass

Frest Milk

Oast Mill

Frotes with Syrop

Coffae

Trost und Batter

Luncht

Noudless and Soupe

Staffed Pork Shops

Potetoes Prsilnne

Fruit & Coctell

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posted : Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

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Exasperated Sighs Are The New Black

  • me: how does the President continue military actions/drone bombings in Pakistan w/o running afoul of the War Powers Resolution? does Congress pass authorizations that fly under the media radar
  • without formally declaring war on Pakistan?
  • brendan: "All reasonable and necessary force" are the magic words in the authorization in the act passed just after 9/11.
  • me: fucking a
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posted : Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

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“ The shell-bursts from the Fascist anti-aircraft guns dotted the sky like cloudlets in a bad water-colour, but I never saw them get within a thousand yards of an aeroplane. When an aeroplane swoops down and uses its machine-gun the sound, from below, is like the fluttering of wings.

Homage to Catalonia (via unburyingthelead)

My favorite Orwell is his non-fiction.

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posted : Friday, October 30th, 2009

reblogged from : Unburying The Lead

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posted : Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

reblogged from : a new look at the left wing

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posted : Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

reblogged from : AZspot

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the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima is as good a day as any to remember Guernica. This video is a 3-D exploration of Picasso’s Guernica by Lena Gieseke (better quality here). The bombing of Guernica (1937), carried out by the Nazi Luftwaffe on behalf of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War, is one of the first aerial bombings of a civilian population carried out in modern warfare. To me, Picasso’s work is a terrible monument and herald to the age of modern state sponsered terrorism of which Hiroshima is a sad example.

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posted : Thursday, August 6th, 2009

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No More Hibakusha
I’ve posted this before, but it seems appropriate to re-post for today. It hangs in my room.

No More Hibakusha

I’ve posted this before, but it seems appropriate to re-post for today. It hangs in my room.

posted : Thursday, August 6th, 2009

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Iraq Photo of the Day
Depressingly serendipitous.

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Iraq Photo of the Day

Depressingly serendipitous.

posted : Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

reblogged from : this isn't happiness.

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