https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/24/blood-and-gold-review-second-world-war-spaghetti-western-is-good-pulpy-fun

Indeed. It’s like Tarantino made this flick, title font, kitschy music, and all.

https://www.tastingtable.com/1304627/grilled-ingredient-upgrade-summertime-chartreuse-swizzle/

Falernum, eh?

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/06/usaf-calls-killer-ai-report-anecdotal/387046/

I.e.: never happened.

https://www.vulture.com/2022/10/theater-review-1776-on-broadway.html

I’m just some tasteless Philistine, but I just saw this at DPAC, and it was insanely good. Not AT ALL your father’s or grandfather’s 1776. South Carolina’s song about how we (white people) all participate in slavery was just a bludgeon.

https://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/1776/molassestorum.amp.htm

I think it is hi-larious that the first major impact making climate change real for people is insurance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/climate/climate-change-insurance-wildfires-california.html?unlocked_article_code=jNqQQ3KxRnognLlf4E3o8-ksmAA0-8dXGuWxaX5XSl3X7Ziqr0aWrufjZFG9YoVucV0uYctEwOGqsBSd3VTopkiZoonX1vPqPvyocD_cUv4jPX8sBhgqlX3GYvjygj1RWem8LrkdexM25mFs-fSKPSCECFPdBYTvtXa27f7MfS8Gq1E_eYz-6A2oneU2oc8AV7P5ZWyXx_jW4yPjIh31LI19nFQjF90WSf521Jt0V5TqJOXGyFLFRhdsz2kvRyj8zIJwqnKG8c56TW0413-gcmeCt5UUqyUqxLqNlEk76AGTCIHAnzfxx8D7I0jhRBDYmwqkLLurpofTk1pVPN1MpVIYf4Zu1-rd4PCvVIbIFgFV2ibr8_cs&smid=url-share

Ok, now that I’m not laughing any more, that actually makes sense. You won’t get clobbered by sea level rise or the mother of all forest fires or hurricanes, but none of the people whose job it is to know these things will take your bet that you’re going to be fine.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Native-American/Assimilation-versus-sovereignty-the-late-19th-to-the-late-20th-century

《In other cases, however, claims to indigenous heritage have proved bogus, and recognition has been denied.》

OK, I gotta say I’m a bit disappointed with Britannica here. “Bogus” seems like slang; why not “spurious” or “specious”?

Was looking at the Wikipedia list of US military deaths (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war) over the years and was struck by how many wars against the noble savage we engaged in during our noble expansion west in this great land of ours which we now possess.

I have always wondered how many were slaughtered, how many died of imported diseases, how many were exiled to bad land no one wanted, and how many were assimilated. Let’s read….

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Native-American/Assimilation-versus-sovereignty-the-late-19th-to-the-late-20th-century

Yikes, this is quite a list:

《Programs promoting assimilation were framed by the social and economic ideals that had come to dominate the national cultures of Canada and the United States. Although they varied in detail, these ideals generally emphasized Euro-American social structures and habits such as nuclear or, at most, three-generation families; patrilineal kinship; differential inheritance among “legitimate” and “illegitimate” children; male-led households; a division of labour that defined the efforts of women, children, and elders as “domestic help” and those of men as “productive labour”; sober religiosity; and corporal punishment for children and women. Economically, they emphasized capitalist principles, especially the ownership of private property (particularly of land, livestock, and machinery); self-directed occupations such as shop keeping, farming, and ranching; and the self-sufficiency of the nuclear household.》

This entire article seems pretty solid, btw.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/26/business/economy/debt-limit-default.html

This is insane. Three clean debt-ceiling raises by Republicans under Trump, but here we are:

《The Treasury can’t delay an interest payment without default, according to SIFMA, but it could notify Fedwire by 7:30 a.m. that the payment will not be ready for the morning. It would then have until 4:30 p.m. to make the payment and avoid default.》

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gop-debt-ceiling-trump-presidency/