Tradition is innovation that worked, but if you capriciously abandon tradition, you destroy the justification for innovation.

'They disguise their true ambitions for power, wealth, and notoriety behind ideology, using terms like 'social justice' which are vague enough to convey the righting of wrongs, to animate social movements united by grievance.'

I just realized that I have conflated two films for most of my life. All things considered, I think I should be forgiven for this...

Turn CBC on.
'I love flying to Rome, but that's the kind of trip that's responsible for the most emissions. If you're at all aware of our problem, every trip is a guilt trip.'
Turn CBC off.

Popular Science (May 1919) was delighted with the 14 portholes in the fully enclosed cabin of the Morane-Saulnier T, but concluded 'such machines as these could not be used for fighting purposes as they are too unwieldy and too slow of handling.' France had ordered 100 in 1916.

Švejk on the delights of the lunatic asylum...which so closely resembles our society today.

Now, THIS is disturbing... acc.gov

Turn CBC on:
'Maybe I shouldn't say this, but when it comes to climate change, we have to get over our habit of respecting older people.'
Turn CBC off.

For security reasons, staging camps set up near Le Havre and Marseilles in 1944 were named after cigarette brands. Camp Lucky Strike was the largest 'cigarette camp' (c. 60K). These tent cities later became assembly points for newly-liberated American POWs awaiting repatriation.

Rea Irvin is best remembered for his 169 cover illustrations for the 'New Yorker,' but his opulent advertisements for Murad cigarettes, like this one from 1918/19, were also notable.

I observe: 'Our sentimental friend, the Moon
Or possibly (fantastic, I confess),
It may be Prester John's balloon...'

A safety guard for a circular saw? It will never catch on (Popular Science, April 1919)!

The daredevil met his match in 1919.

Stuntman Rodman Law survived his brief 1913 rocket flight, but was badly injured the next year while parachuting from a balloon, ending his career. He joined the fledgling US Army Aviation Corps in 1917, but this proved his doom: he contracted TB while training at Kelly Field.

Medium-density housing at its finest...in 1919!

Just a barrel in a lake, eh? Count me in! (April 1919).

During the harsh winter of 1918, the coal shortage drove freezing inhabitants of Chicago to demolish and burn for fuel 287 houses! (Popular Science, April 1919).

'We're BACK on the world stage!'

I wonder...do they still call a Black Maria a Green Antony (zelený antony) in Czechia?

It felt almost like spring on the weekend. The wee crick is flowing but moss provides the only note of green....