Recent content by frustrated progressive

(Not really qualified to comment but) Most of me wants to say that these were two extremely ambitious men, and that when Caesar wrapped up his campaign in Gaul he would need to be installed in a top office and resume active political life (just retaining command without glory to be won probably...

For a sec I honestly thought both of them were AI-generated composites.

Bilal Kaifa!

Perhaps this.

Given the other half of the post, I’m gonna assume it was a deliberate bit.

This, and in fairness I believe Worf meant that bit to make fun of their own obsessions while also showing how the impact of inhabiting Trump and dealing with being President was eroding their psyche still further.

Makes sense-I'm unsure how to pull that off, but it's not too implausible.

I like this, tho Vietnam would seem to be a fly in the ointment. Different circumstances mean that America just cuts its losses early, instead of the quagmire of deepening involvement?

I have no knowledge on the subject and no stake in any resulting argument, I'm genuinely just asking here: Could part of this similarity have been because the Constitution of the Free State was drafted after the Anti-Treaty people split off, and so the people who had the most influence on the...

Honestly, good points all around.

You think the radicalizing effect of war and then the validation of victory would have led them to move on to a document that wasn’t just a carbon copy of of the US Constitution (but with extra slavery)? Or is there some other reason?

Alright, now I'm imagining the other Billy Graham as a pro wrestler, somehow.

I did about four seconds of research and apparently, while that's what most contemporaries thought, there's no solid evidence for him even having syphilis, and his mental fragility could have come from any number of other reasons. Serves me right for being lazy, I suppose.

In my recollection O'Connell started succumbing to the mental derangements of advanced syphilis, at the height of his popularity.

I've often wondered what he might have accomplished if not for the temptations of Venus...