It's all well and good to ask "how did you get injured?" before giving out free subscriptions to WWI vets, but you should also ask "which side did you fight for?"
When your paywalled comments start filling up with all-caps screeds about how the Kaiser never got a fair shake, you'll only have yourself to blame.
I’m not believing that Jeff Maurer doesn’t know that another definition of the adjective “dumb” means “cannot speak “. I think he’s baiting us. And it worked.
I wasn't there, but from what I've read, Billy Hughes, about as racist a man who could have lived in those times, and the leader of the Australian delegation to the League of Nations, helped scuttle a civil rights amendment in the LON final document that the Japanese favored calling for equal treatment for all nations. One has to wonder whether WWII would have occurred if some countries back then treated other countries as equals.
There's a rumor that negotiators on both sides of the port strike issue were very concerned about the collateral damage caused by bloggers 'creating' even more 'jokes' about shipping, thus potentially fatally damaging blogging 'careers.'
That was considered a bridge too far and cooler heads prevailed.....
Trump's a nightmare. It's stupid that I have to say that, but if I don't some idiot is going to accuse me of being a Trumper. But I don't see a great deal of ethical space between Trump hawking ugly watches to raise money and Democrats flocking to CA to hobnob with billionaires to raise money. In fact, Trump's clumsy effort seems very slightly cleaner to me in some way. It's all awful, but I think your moral compass spun a bit on this one, JM. I love your writing, though.
"The name of the organization was inspired by the 1897 London animal charity Our Dumb Friends League (since renamed Blue Cross). At that time, "dumb" in the sense of "lacking speech" was often used to refer to animals."
For a while I thought it was like an ironic adult kickball league, but no.
It's all well and good to ask "how did you get injured?" before giving out free subscriptions to WWI vets, but you should also ask "which side did you fight for?"
When your paywalled comments start filling up with all-caps screeds about how the Kaiser never got a fair shake, you'll only have yourself to blame.
I’m not believing that Jeff Maurer doesn’t know that another definition of the adjective “dumb” means “cannot speak “. I think he’s baiting us. And it worked.
He keeps mispronouncing Noel Coward’s name (it’s NO-uhl, not no-EL), so I believe it.
I wasn't there, but from what I've read, Billy Hughes, about as racist a man who could have lived in those times, and the leader of the Australian delegation to the League of Nations, helped scuttle a civil rights amendment in the LON final document that the Japanese favored calling for equal treatment for all nations. One has to wonder whether WWII would have occurred if some countries back then treated other countries as equals.
There's a rumor that negotiators on both sides of the port strike issue were very concerned about the collateral damage caused by bloggers 'creating' even more 'jokes' about shipping, thus potentially fatally damaging blogging 'careers.'
That was considered a bridge too far and cooler heads prevailed.....
Trump's a nightmare. It's stupid that I have to say that, but if I don't some idiot is going to accuse me of being a Trumper. But I don't see a great deal of ethical space between Trump hawking ugly watches to raise money and Democrats flocking to CA to hobnob with billionaires to raise money. In fact, Trump's clumsy effort seems very slightly cleaner to me in some way. It's all awful, but I think your moral compass spun a bit on this one, JM. I love your writing, though.
[Belloc holds up a Trump Watch to Indiana Jones]
“But if I bury it in the sand, dig it up a thousand years later, it is *priceless*!!!”
Jeff, if ignorance is inexcusable, then what explains your constant mispronunciation of Noel Coward’s first name? It’s “NO-uhl”, not “no-EL”.
Then to top it off you had no idea what “dummy” used to mean. You, sir, are never sitting with my Pub Trivia team.
Note also the hilariously-named Denver Dumb Friends League: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_Friends_League
"The name of the organization was inspired by the 1897 London animal charity Our Dumb Friends League (since renamed Blue Cross). At that time, "dumb" in the sense of "lacking speech" was often used to refer to animals."
For a while I thought it was like an ironic adult kickball league, but no.