Essential reading on this from @tompepinsky.com www.vox.com/the-big-idea...

"The fantasy of authoritarianism distracts Americans from the mundane ways in which the mechanisms of political competition and checks and balances can erode... if [democracy] ends, it will not end in a bang."

All I want for Christmas is the dissolution of the state of Israel

That Paul McCartney Christmas song is dope

don't @ me

Should be in every newsagents window.

I keep getting asked what I think the new Portland WNBA franchise mascot should be. What say you, hoops fans?

secret santa at the cia prolly goes hard as hell

Probably the defining moment in Kraftwerk’s career was when they changed their name to Kraftwerk (from Uncle Horst and his Bratwurst Boys) and swapped their lederhosen and trombones for sharp suits and synthesisers