Factoid-of-the-day, heard on the radio this morning (last night, US time):
There are only 20 countries in the world that Great Britain has not invaded at some point in history.
Day: November 8, 2012
Caveat: The Lions and The Hippies
Blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic website is mediocre when he's bad. But when he's good, he's amazing. Read his post – if only just for the title. It's a bit "triumphalist" vis-a-vis Obamism (specifically, I darkly disagree with Mr Coates with respect to the idea that the extra-judicial assassination of Osama bin Laden was ethical), but for all that, I can hardly fault it. It succeeds in being optimistically inspiring and mildly humorous at the same time. Coates can sometimes write very well.