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There are also a lot of interesting and useful isotopes - like Americium-241 - in that waste. That's an α-emitter with a 432 year half-life used in ionizing smoke detectors (1g or less) and a possibility for long-duration RTGs.* France and Germany, in their infinite wisdom, have banned such...

Kublai Kahn twice sent invasion fleets to subjugate Japan (1274 and 1281). The Japanese have a word for the typhoons which wrecked those invasion fleets: 神風 (kamikaze).

Cheering from the cheap seats because coal is not "lefty-approved high tech green energy" and coal miners tend to be thought of as "blue-collar rural trash" by people with tech jobs would be my guess.

That's not leftist word salad. It's some manner of puke on paper - to use the colloquialism - which aspires to be word salad.

Pride also "goes before a fall". Someone who knows they're about to fall will stop and steady themselves before continuing. Someone who doesn't might need assistance just to get back on their feet and stand.

Article III Section 2 is very specific:

Execution by molten gold used to be a thing. It was generally reserved for people who got too greedy. It was about as awful as the "hanged, drawn, and quartered" sentence reserved for someone guilty of High Treason.

Inalchuq? That was the Mongols going "oh, hell no!" to an idiot who murdered a caravan of merchants.

IIRC, that was caliph Al-Musta'sim in 1258. What the Mongols did to Baghdad was not pretty. When the Mongols captured him they made him watch the destruction before they stuffed him in a sack and trampled him with horses.

And the mongols had "you do not kill the messenger" as one of their rules.

The mongols actually followed the laws and customs of war - as they understood them - and generally didn't go "we're killing everyone" unless someone went past the bounds of what was considered acceptable.

In terms of mass murder Stalin was actually worse than Hitler.

Noam Chonsky would be absolutely clueless if he were try and decipher Cray-1 machine code and he calls himself a language expert. I'd probably need a few weeks to turn it into something even remotely resembling English and I have access to a Cray-1 hardware manual and the source code of a...

The first one is why you never trust someone who calls themselves a "libertarian-socialist" or insists that they're always smarter than you are.

There's a black guy in Indianapolis who drives "The Chevy Lee". That SUV is plastered with Confederate symbols. He really likes The Dukes of Hazzard.

I have my moments.

"Here's the fag an let's be gay today." is probably the meanest thing I've said to a homosexual guy. He was asking me for a cigarette and was trying to flirt with me. I was trying to be as offensive as possible.

They're probably trying to get out of the miserably hot Texas summer weather more than anything else.

Wiser words were never spoken.