Jilli, here is Olivia's Draculara, with extra blood, "because vampires like blood."

I don't see anything from today, Jesse. Last thing in my dashboard is the ginger cat.

That's so annoying! I had stuff in the queue! Which is no longer there! Hmph.

AAARRRGGGGHHHH! My eldest sister just called me. She's legally blind but continues to fucking drive. This morning, she went to the pharmacy and on the way back, DROVE THROUGH A TRAIN SIGNAL. Meaning, she hit the arm and completely smashed the windshield of their car. This is the only vehicle they have that can get her husband to work. She asked me for $600 to replace the windshield. Ten days before Christmas.

And my sister is dethroned in the ridiculously stupid and potentially lethal driving decisions sweepstakes.

So the Nazis were all, "If we can't have this art, no one can!"? What a bunch of babies!

Actually just one extra bad Nazi. The leader of the resistance fighters actually went over his head to his boss, a high up SS officer, to stop him. An incredibly risky thing to do, but it helped stall the plan to flood the mines.

You should come over some night and have Hec tell you the whole story in greater detail, possibly over cocktails or something. It's amazing how many other Nazis were willing to sneak around behind the one fanatical guy's back secretly and utterly sabotaging his blow-all-the-art-up plans, including passing info to the Allies and the Resistance.

Personally, I think blasphemy laws are absurd... but here's an especially absurd example:

Pakistani doctor held under blasphemy law

Pakistani authorities have arrested a doctor on suspicion of violating the country's contentious blasphemy laws after he threw away the business card of a man who shared the name of the Prophet.

Yep, someone who's name was Mohamed gave someone a business card. Then the person threw the card away. That's all that happened.

It's reassuring to realize that even among the Nazis there were those who said, "No, this is the heritage of humanity, this is bigger than us." Like the guys who gave up Neufschwanstein when the Americans were ready to blow the place up.

And my sister is dethroned in the ridiculously stupid and potentially lethal driving decisions sweepstakes.

Woot! We're #1...oh, wait a minute....

One of my colleagues from grad school works on art and the Resistance in France. The stories are fascinating.

It's amazing how many other Nazis were willing to sneak around behind the one fanatical guy's back secretly and utterly sabotaging his blow-all-the-art-up plans, including passing info to the Allies and the Resistance.

At that point it was pretty obvious who was going to win the war, I would think.

It's reassuring to realize that even among the Nazis there were those who said, "No, this is the heritage of humanity, this is bigger than us."

Considering those same individuals were perfectly OK with exterminating large numbers of actual human beings...I'm not reassured.