Pat Buchanan: Hitler just wanted peace, but Churchill wouldn't give it to him

A reader, who added only the comment, "...akpfthbll!", pointed me at Pat Buchanan's latest masterpiece, Did Hitler Want War?, in which he argues that Hitler didn't want a war, could have been negotiated with, and it was only Churchill's insistence on a military solution to Hitler's annexation of neighboring states that drove Hitler to begin the Holocaust. This follows on Pat's continued dismissal of the Holocaust as a significant historical event, and his use of Holocaust denialist "evidence" to bolster his dismissal.

I can't do it justice. Adam Serwer, though, wins the internet today with his headline, Pat Buchanan: Sotomayor? Racist. Hitler? Misunderstood.

Market House Corned Beef

Market House Corned Beef

Near the place where I'm currently, well, I can't quite call it working yet (although today I said of the code, "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure" -- and I did it), there's this place that has exactly one product: corned beef. Well, okay, they have other kinds of salt-cured meats, but those are all variations on that particular theme. Market House Corned Beef, at the corner Howell & Minor in downtown Seattle, is more or less an Irish Deli, if there were such a thing.

I had the corned beef sandwich, hot. I got a pound of meat, a slice of swiss cheese about the thickness of parking ticket, and two hunks of bread that pretended to hold it all. And oh, my gods, it was good. Marvelous in ways that cannot be described. Most corned beef is excessively salty, but this was not. It was heavenly, a perfect mass of pink meat that threatend to overwhelm my protein sensors and send me into a carnivore's paradise.

The coleslaw was boring and the salad pointless. Soda pop washed away the essential ecstasies of meat's existence. You may as well just get the sandwich and a glass of water.

I can't wait to try out the pastrami.