James Bowman on the latest work of Quentin Tarantino, a sort of cartoon treatment of WW2: "It is important for us to remember that those known to history as Nazis were not cartoon characters. Nor were those who fought and finally defeated them. Nor was that defeat accomplished by a gang of bloodthirsty, free-lancing American Jews in search of revenge who manage to commandeer a ludicrously implausible scheme to assassinate the entire German high command,…

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I came across this gem of a comment by an Obama supporter - assuming the commenter was sincere and not a troll, and it is just too good to go unremarked. The comment was made on a suitably acerbic column by Matt Welch, one of those Reasonoids who have gone very sour indeed on the US president. Here is the comment: "I´m american and not angry. i´m happy with our new president. vladimir putin likes…

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