Elon Musk is purchasing Twitter and, as Dr. MacLeod notes, social media is ablaze with outrage and, as he suggests, they’re flooding social media with furious denunciations of social media. Some of them may actually be bailing out; Mark Hamill notes that he’s felt a great disturbance in the Twitterverse, as if thousands of voices […]
Punchbooks has posted this cartoon from April 16, 1919, in which British Prime Minister David Lloyd George cheerfully presents the Paris Peace Agreement, citing the 1895 Punch cartoon which had turned an old joke into a permanent part of the culture: Parts of the agreement that ended the First World War were excellent, but it […]
Matt Wuerker (Politico) cites the phrase “Fog of War,” which began, as he suggests, on the battlefield, but has spread markedly. According to Wikipedia (or whoever they copped it from): The first known use of the exact phrase in text dates to 1896 in a book titled The Fog of War by Sir Lonsdale Augustus Hale, where […]