Doha is a cool town. Hit the Galleria Mall and check out the “waffle cone” hotel. Also, the Museum of Islamic Art is impressive.

That made me think of the slave puppets in Tales from the Hood that come to life and kill a honky

The Corbin Bernsen character, based on David Duke.
Tales From the Hood is a great horror movie. Clarence Williams III rocks.

Rams will play a home game in London in each of the next three years.

This a great move to solidify the NFL’s growing overseas audience — in 2000.

It looks like Los Angeles will get a team within the next four years

Probably sooner than that. And they’re called the Raiders.

My God but that’s a deep Garfield reference.

Easily one of my favorite sentences ever constructed.

And to think that Abu Dhabi used to be so synonymous with “barren wasteland” that Garfield kept trying to mail Nermal there.

My God but that’s a deep Garfield reference.

/stands
//applauds

American Lion

That’s the basis for The Ghost and The Darkness, right?

Great film.

You’ll enjoy Theodore Rex. Edmund Morris is supposed to be working on his third biography of Roosevelt which covers his post-presidential years.

Funny story about Andrew Jackson, he made Constitutional loopholes cool way before any modern day President did. He was nicknamed King Andrew I for a reason.

I’m assuming you read “American Lion”? It was really well written, but I still enjoyed John Adams and Team of Rivals more. Once I’m done Game of Thrones, I’m going to finally read Theodore Rex.

Almost all of the early Presidents were slaveholders, except for John and John Quincy Adams. Jefferson was banging his slaves, Andrew Jackson had a small army of them.

Yeah? Well Poland was wiped from the map for about 125 years.

And that’s why I refuse to use any currency which contains a president who owned slaves.

Funny story about Andrew Jackson, he made Constitutional loopholes cool way before any modern day President did. He was nicknamed King Andrew I for a reason.

Andrew Jackson had a small army of them.

That made me think of the slave puppets in Tales from the Hood that come to life and kill a honky. Then I laughed. Then I felt slightly racist. Then I laughed some more.

It was my silent protest against the fact that Washington owned slaves.

Almost all of the early Presidents were slaveholders, except for John and John Quincy Adams. Jefferson was banging his slaves, Andrew Jackson had a small army of them.

YES!

/lights candle

Are you really comparing Dubai and it’s ski-scrapers and fake ski hills built in an era with advanced human rights and the freaking pyramids??

No, just trying to bring a tangential point in. The explotation of people for the amusement of those in the higher classes has gone on for millenia, nothing shocks me at this point. Just like Dubai, every electronics company in the world has a bunch of 12-14 years olds building our stuff in sweatshops in China making dollars a day working 16 hours straight. Should we go back to a pre-electronics era then?

While I agree that we have a very different conception of ‘human rights’ today versus 1,000 years ago, his analogy is not completely ridiculous.

I wore a smirk on my face every second I was at Mt. Vernon. It was my silent protest against the fact that Washington owned slaves.

/no I really didn’t