Maybe we should call them “flutters”?

V for Vendetta. The comic, not the movie. I first read this as it was being released in Warrior magazine in weekly installments and living in Thatcher’s Britain it was just so hopeful

So Pooh got it right then

Agreed. Ineptitude, stupidity, laziness and golf will stop him before that

I liked the religious/prophetic arc. Just as I liked it in Dune. The subversion of the myth for political ends which actually fulfills/becomes the prophecy is a great story.

He’ll never invade Greenland or Canada. Congress wouldn’t fund it and both of them are NATO nations which would oblige Europe and Scandinavia to defend them. It’s a distraction tactic.

Crème Brûlée, in Paris. I was 35 and had no idea.