News Historian Mugs

'I think I'll stay in and try to catch up on my reading.'

Neo-International Law

Israel/Palestine Conflict

'It's one of these new phones that takes photographs.'

Cord cutter

Archival Warfare

"Hell, George - they even miss ME!"

'It says our line printer is obsolete our remote terminal is obsolete, and I'm afraid, we're obsolete.'

Armed forces waiting with nothing to do.

John F. Kennedy

"It's a fantastic computer! It's so old that none of today's hackers know how to hack it!"

"It's going over the top? D' you realise what you've just said?"

"Let me connect you with Edith, our specialist in ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia. My expertise happens to be in North Korean intransigence."

"I like it but does it get only the one channel?"

Idlib, Syria - The final stage

Terrorism leaves Iraq and moves on to new places.

The wrecking crew!

"I'll never forget you."

"It's very sweet of you to visit him. Mr. Mainframe doen't get out much since the desktops came in."

Says here the Navy's going to be patrolling the South China Sea. It could spark a history-changing war. Google tells me the last time a Naval conflict changed history, it was the Battle of Midway. You were alive at that time. How awesome was it to already be ancient when Midway happened? I never expected a question like that from a prepubescent stooge like you. Was it as awesome as when you saw Cleopatra lose at the Battle of Actium? I see you're bringing Google's a-game today.

"Pinpoint havoc, gentlemen, accuracy of mayhem. And yet our dress blues remain crisp and sharp, our hands soft and pink."

You can't spell Afghanistan without A, G, A, I, and N.

'Ignore them, Charlie. They're nothing but philistines. I liked your poetry, truly I did!'

"This car is a retro classic. Instead of a USB outlet there's a cigarette lighter."

'Egad! It's the ghosts of sanity past!'

Reagacentennial

Chilcot's report and the blood of martyrs

"Oh, say you can't see, any conflicts of interest in me! What's good for my brand, is now the law of the land! And the crooked media's nasty glare, my killer tweets bursting in air... Gave proof to the news cycle, that I'm so awesome it's almost unfair!..

Worst decision of all time, cont'd.

US strike on Syria.

'I expect 'Sesame Street has seen some new developments since I was your age?'

'At last we have found 'The Land of the Obsolete Hardware','

Afghanistan intervention.

"You are a Democracy! You are free! The sky is the limit!"

Moving the Goalposts