(Spellings like "Goethe's Werke" or "Wallenstein's Lager" were entirely the norm in the 19th century, but Duden in the patriotic fervor of the Kaiserzeit got an itch that this was all somehow pernicious British influence, and banished the usage until the 1990s.)

The apostrophe 's as an allowed personal genitive for shop names and other businesses caused controversy as an English encroachment, but actually has been attested in signage and naming in German-speaking countries for hundreds of years. Duden started saying "nein" in 1901 as an anti-British thing.

Bond exists in multiple universes. I don't think they have to acknowledge the Daniel Craig Bond getting vaporized at all, or anything else from that incarnation. I mean, the guy has been shaking martinis and bantering with babes on the big screen since 1962. Nobody is looking for continuity here.

Not only gut-bustingly funny, but it takes the trope of the outcast and turns it on its head.

"I'll be the victim!"
"All your life."

(Yeah, I know, "Saving Private Ryan," but there is too much gauzy sentimentality and flag-fluttering clichés for me to consider it truly an anti-war film. It is so clearly an entertainment product, albeit certainly a darn good one.)

"They raised the salience of soaring insurance premiums and sent the message that Republicans made the policy that caused them. They goaded Trump into making unpopular moves to withhold food stamps that appear to have hurt his numbers. It’s possible the shutdown has still been a net political gain."

It's scary. You have unbelievable levels of paper fortunes being made on Wall Street, while everyday consumers are increasingly leveraged to the hilt, buying food and essentials with high-interest pay later schemes, and credit card defaults are hitting 2008-9 levels. The US economy is a Jenga tower.

Such a great script. I read that in making the original film, they had Julie Bovasso (Mrs. Cappomaggi) read every single one of Cher's lines to her so she could pull off the accent, above and beyond the dialect coaching she was doing for Olympia Dukakis.

Something like 80% of the valuation of the entire US equities market is based on like half a dozen companies. As folks have pointed out, that even exceeds the extreme exposure prior to the dotcom crash. And everyday household debt to asset ratios are getting close to 1929 levels. Double yikes.

The government must rehire all the workers they laid off, they have to commit to ending the reductions in force and restore previously appropriated funding, and key programs are off the table for further budget hostage taking, at least until the midterms. Not walking away empty-handed by any means.

And it was not for nothing. Every sentient person in the country is now aware there is a looming health insurance premium crisis that the GOP deliberately orchestrated in their Big Bad Bill. In the compromise, aid programs must be funded through 2026, and no further reductions in staff are allowed.

St. Martin's Day, or Martinmas, is an old medieval revel that traditionally marked the end of Hallowtide, and the start of the dreary dark winter (and looking outside my window today, they got it right). You eat goose, kids do a sort of trick or treating with lanterns, and drinking the harvest wine.

That is another good point--everyone here is automatically registered to vote. There aren't any voter registration drives because everyone automatically gets their voter information in the mail with their precinct and vote by mail info.

And absolutely the Sunday thing, when most people have off.