I just read We Didn't Know Ourselves, by Fintan O'Toole last year. He uses his own biography as an organizing framework, so while it does touch on the 19th century and early 20th the main focus is post-WW2 to modern day with lots of detail about national politics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Don%...

You forgot fill your bathtub with gin

My thoughts went to the same place. Buying literal dowsing rods for the CPA.

Unusual whales notes some big bets on his PR under in 2026, uncovering a rep fixing scandal that ends in disbarment as a podcaster and the NCAA banning Patrick for life.

They don't actually do plain fries, but you can order the $22 shawarma poutine and ask the kitchen to hold the cheese and gravy

Most doors aren't very strong so I like to hulk through them anyway just in case. When there's a particularly strong door sometimes I will kool-aid man the wall instead. I have many concussion

Asking a guy I like to go stake out a swiss arms dealer's mansion with me, hope we don't have to pretend to make out for a while as a cover

Alexander wins after Lursa drags Riker off the platform during the hopscotch game

Right, obviously the gang maps much more cleanly to Akira characters. Noel is Kaneda, SB is Tetsuo, Baptiste is the scientist guy etc

What if you get edged of tomorrow, but the death that triggers the loop is It

If you should meet the Buddha in the replies, block him

The quaker state oil placard over the buffet implies the convergence of the robotic homunculi installed in the restaurant and the over-stimulated, alienated human customers paying to be there

I don't think you can smoke indoors inside California anymore

Which of the monks have been considered for canonization during the history of the monastery? St Dot the Mirthful has a nice ring to it