The View from a Drawbridge

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  • A Deep Dive Into the Piazza San Marco, Venice

    A Deep Dive Into the Piazza San Marco, Venice

    This is not just a square that you cross to get to other things.

  • You Know Mr. D

    Some people are just drawn to fascism.

  • Dorothy Thompson, The Most Famous Woman You’ve Never Heard Of

    We should all know about this amazing woman.

  • Don’t Miss this Documentary

    Knowledge is power.

  • Off Limits

    There’s nothing on earth that makes me want to do something more than being told I cannot do that thing. Not that I’m going to disobey The Law writ large. I won’t even shout “fire” in a crowded movie theater. Laws are generally put into place for the protection of society. But some arbitrary rules…

  • You Have Been Warned

    I’ve seen two things recently that have made my hair stand on end because they seem to be so prescient. We are living in terrifying times. And they’re all the more terrifying because these things have happened before. The first thing I’m referring to is the Hulu series, the Handmaid’s Tale, which is based on…

  • Poking Fun at Hitler

    So I’ve been hearing this rumor about Hitler having a very tiny weenie all over the internet for the past few days. My gut reaction was to be thrilled. Not because I think that size is important, or that it says anything about a person’s manhood or sexuality or value as a human being. It…

  • Beware of Defective Germ Plasm

    I just read the most disturbing thing ever. Actually, I just skimmed it because it made me too sick to read it all the way through. It’s a report entitled Committee to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means of Cutting Off the Defective Germ Plasm in the American Population. This report was…

  • To War or Not to War

    There really hasn’t been a good clean war that everyone could sink their teeth into since World War II. Okay, I’m being sarcastic, but at least we can all agree that Hitler was the bad guy, and people were willing to ration their food and give up their panty hose for the cause. We were…

  • Sometimes a Teapot is Just a Teapot

    There’s such a thing as being too sensitive. The other day the mayor of Culver City, California absolutely freaked out over a teapot, because if you squint hard enough it resembles Adolph Hitler. I kid you not. Check out the article. The sh**storm was so immediate that JCPenney actually had to pull the pot from…