Empire is no more! and now the lion and wolf shall cease.

'Bats' by Edward Gorey

rare wikipedia exclamation point found on Lentil rice article

Howard Pyle - "The Garden Behind the Moon" (1895)

Accolade by Edmund Blair Leighton

May your mind and your tongue remain as sharp as your steel. . . . ⚔️BLUESKY ⚔️ALL OF ME⚔️

To say that “narco-terrorism” is a myth is not to deny the obvious violence associated with the black market drug trade, but to acknowledge that the term does more to confuse than to clarify. The idea does not accurately explain the complex dynamics of the global drug trade; instead, it radically oversimplifies the problem. By portraying military intervention as a response to drug trafficking, the “narco-terrorism” myth allows politicians to ignore all of the ways in which military intervention is a cause of drug trafficking... Perhaps the greatest flaw of “narco-terrorism” is that it encourages us to believe that complex human problems have simple military solutions. Sociologist C. Wright Mills once astutely criticized US elites for accepting a “military definition of reality,” a distorted perspective which prevents them from imagining policy solutions that do not involve military intervention. So long as the government insists upon seeing non-military problems through a military lens, they will never be solved.

The term “Cartel of the Suns” originated as a colloquial term used by Venezuelans to mock the military officials who maintained close ties with drug traffickers within the country’s corrupt power system (Venezuelan generals wear symbols of the sun on their uniform). It has no territory, no leadership, no structure or coherence at all; it is a reference to a systematic national problem. The concept of a “crooked cop” does not suggest that there’s a Crooked Cop Incorporated office building we can go after, but that’s what they’re doing by designating “Cartel de los Soles” as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

It was weird bc it did give you knowledge about the past but in a scattershot way where you end up seeing half the episodes of every garbage sitcom but have never seeing, say, Mary Tyler Moore or M*A*S*H. Which is still more than you get from streaming rarely featuring anything before 1990 or channels syndicating one show eight hours a day

Hmm, more of a hammock situation than a tuck-in... but look at that FACE! How could I NOT post this?

By Alan Lee

Is this a real thing? It looks like its from a short story?