Quote of the day

 The easiest moral place to stand is in the middle.

- Ben Shapiro

Losing the thread of things

From Wikipedia's "Sovetsky" article:

Modern Sovetsk has sought to take advantage of Tilsit's tradition of cheese production (Tilsit cheese), but the new name ("Sovetsky cheese") has not inherited its predecessor's reputation. 

Life in a country with no First Amendment

U.K. university (a member of the University of London) fires a professor without warning for politically inconvenient research, and confiscates her data while they're at it.

 https://archive.ph/DeWSK#selection-2759.5-2797.54

Trusting the elites

 A silver medal struck by the Kaiser's Lauer mint in Nuremberg, to celebrate the "liberation" of East Prussia. It features a naked, potbellied and anatomically correct Hindenburg, about to give a coup-de-grace to the Russian bear.

I presume that the same sort of people who thought that invading France was a good idea also thought that this coin was a good idea.

It's easy to get lost among the many graceful features of this fine work of art, but one feature you want to note is that the Great Man's broadsword is too long for the terrain; it is physically impossible for him to hit the bear without shifting his sword grip. On the other hand, Hindenburg's belly, testicles and anus are unprotected and each within a single swipe of the bear's claws, and the only things between his neck and the bear's teeth are Hindenburg's stout courage and body odor.