Drunk History... a la Patrick.

So, I've had about a liter of of Martinique rum and Coke/French Antilles rum and Pommac so far tonight. I've also started reading Whiteout by Greg Rucka, which is an upcoming movie starring Kate Beckinsale. If you have never read anything by Rucka, I highly recommend Gotham Central.

Anyway, the first few pages of Whiteout state that the Nazis laid claim to an area of Antarctica by dropping thousands of metal swastikas from an airplane. I didn't know if this was fact or "artistic license," so Becky did a search for me on the internet. Sure enough, the Encyclopedia Britannica claims that it actually happened in 1939. I am amazed by this, especially in light of Hitler's vision of Berlin as the capital of the world.

Have They Done Anything Good?

Who isn't interested in stories of Nazi war crimes? The brutality and inhumanity just boggles the mind. I mention this because I just read this story on BBC News.

The Czech Republic on August 19, 2006.

We spent the first part of the day at a place called Terezin. It was a Nazi concentration camp and a propaganda tool about an hour from Prague.







































Toward the end of the day we went to town called Lidice, where more bad things happened.