[TwoSwords]

I love the NPR’s lack of acknowledgment of the Executive Order in Chief. If the tool get’s a second term they’re the first to go when they have to show their id on every corner and throw their fit and scream for a lawyer. Dumass’ writ large.

[ixtl]

I read “In the Garden of Beasts,” and found it interesting; I learned a lot about pre-WW2 Germany that I did not know.

More interesting here were the comments; they also told me a lot - about the ones making the comments.

As Julius Caesar is supposed to have said to Cleopatra, “Always listen to your women (no sexism intended, just quoting). They will tell you much - about themselves.”

[jmacusa]

I read this book recently. In short, Dodd was a pacifist imbecile and his daughter Martha was a Nazi/commie-loving slut who’s knees didn’t spend a night together the moment she hit Berlin.

[x]

One of the malicious nicknames given to William E. Dodd by his fellow American diplomats in the 1930s was “Telephone Book Dodd.” The joke was that Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed Dodd ambassador to Germany in 1933, had supposedly meant to offer the post to a Yale law professor named Walter F. Dodd but made a mistake in looking up the name. Source

Dodd was certainly wrong about a lot of things. But it was more than that: he was in way, way over his head, dealing with things that had no parallels in his own earlier experience. You could say that any old school Jeffersonian was bound to be out of his depth in interwar Europe, but Dodd was more a tragic figure than anything else. His son also had a miserable fate.

[A. Morgan]

http://verysmartgals.blogspot.com/2011/05/in-garden-of-beasts-love-terror-and.html

[A. Morgan]

http://www.traces.org/marthadodd.html

[A. Morgan]

http://www.traces.org/williamdodd.html

[A. Morgan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung