Richard Winter > Recent Status Updates

“Definition of fack (sic); there are only two genders”

Note from the previous owner scribbled into the margin of the first page

Big yapper

Ahmed Chalabi’s introduction felt like an MCU cameo

“A word of command has made these silent figures our enemy; a word of command might transform them into our friends …. Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, than they are to us. And yet we would shoot at them again and they at us if they were free”

“But the US guard turned down his request. When Aburish visited the Iraq desk at the state department, an official read him a statement about Americas neutrality in the Iran-Iraq war, and its refusal to sell to either side”


*Insert Tim Robinson ‘Are you sure about that?’ gif*

Give them all the same grub and all the same pay
And the war would be over and done in a day

“How do we move through all this beauty without destroying it”

“Stop that, stop trying to make everything mean something”

“Kevin Phillips, a Republican analyst of national politics, wrote in 1990 that the Democratic Parts was ‘History’s second-most enthusiastic capitalist party’”