Visually similar to a GoT dire wolf. IIRC, actual Aenocyon Dirus probably didn’t have a white coat.

*Benjamin Butler

Tikky II got me through my entire education.

It’s more than likely this asshole

I see the proud tradition of drinking mercury concoctions is alive and well. I mean, not well, but…

If the healthcare is shit?

I remember a homeless guy who attempted a terror attack by stabbing people in a convenience store, where the FBI came up with the attack, convinced him to do it, bought him a knife, and gave him a lift to the store.

And hold back sea level rise!

This. Otherwise op-eds get a free pass to launder opinions the paper wants to publish, but can’t.

It’s actually hooked up to the Iron Gate hydro plant, so it’s half Romanian.

It does when he’s the guy you’re currently supposed to be negotiating a ceasefire with.

I’d define it as “people getting fired and profit being lost”. If neither the people involved nor the overarching corporate entity suffered greater cost that the benefit, then the endeavour was a net gain, regardless of externalities.

Why would they? Did any of it affect them negatively?

IIRC, the secessions were preceeded by a period where it was sort of an open secret of what’s gonna happen, with stuff like future confederate generals transferring cannon stock to southern bases, and moving themselves and their families south, and the North by and large stood by and let it happen under the rationale that “we shouldn’t anger them, they may still come around”. To the point that, again, IIRC, the commander of Fort Sumter saw trouble brewing across the river and requested reinforcements just before the war, and was turned down.

I mean, that’s kind of what happened with the last civil war too.

You’d think so, but I guess they didn’t.

No, it did it’s purpose: it made headlines.

English is three languages in a trench coat.

Spanglish is four languages in a trench coat.

Never go against a Shekelesh when life is on the line.

Shrimps is bugs