One of those interrogatives, anyway

Yes, the Senate was divided in the Very Very Old Republic into the Darths Spiritual and Darths Temporal

I get not wanting to roll the dice on "how many paychecks can your average ATC miss?" and "what happens when contingency funds run out," but man, "we agreed to this deal so we can get people fed & back to work and keep negotiating" would suck less than "we got a vote (terms and conditions apply)."

The book ends with a poem called "The Ruin", about a ruin, but the poem itself is ruined, full of holes, followed by about 30 pages of riddles that are increasingly impossible to solve because more and more words are missing. I don't know why I'm telling you this except it's one of my favorite facts

So there's this thing called the Exeter Book, it's a codex from 1072 that's basically some rich guy's mixtape of Old English poetry. The interesting thing is it's heavily water damaged in the back half so the closer you get to the end of the book the more and more of each page is just missing

I'm an American who spent the summer of 2014 not in my home (Chicago) but about half in London and half in St Louis, so it's perhaps a little sharper for me, but I'm always amazed when people slight Indyref and Ferguson as signposts for what was coming.

Yes, this is part of my "2014 explains the modern world" TED Talk.

Just gonna save this one here as perennial wisdom.