papal selfie

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"...Eicke had taken command of Dachau and composed a set of regulations that later became the model for all camps. ...Even irony was costly. Eight days' solitary and 'twenty-five strokes' were meted out to 'anyone making depreciatory or ironical remarks to a member of the SS'..." --Eric Larson, In the Garden of Beasts

"On the twentieth anniversary of the assassination, for instance, a local provocateur named Joe Christ drove a convertible through Dealey Plaza with Jackie and Jack mannequins in the backseat. At a designated moment, the presidential dummy’s head popped off, and fake blood spurted into the air."

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Abramson on Knott.

The day they levitated the Pentagon.