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Look, a sack of filth using the Barcelona attack to argue for the need of a police state. How did that Franklin quote go?

Thank you for updating. I'm in GA at the moment, so no worries @bhamv3. Thankfully none of mine were affected, though my parents were in La Rambla two days ago, and my brother/s-i-l/niece were in Vic so I was shook. 1 dead and and 6 wounded in Cambrils (town 110km/70mi from Barcelona) when a...

Had some phonecalls to take care of, catching up now... A total of two suspects have been arrested, plus the dead suspect. No proof that the driver of the attack van was armed. Last night there was an explosion in a residential house in Alcanar (200km/120mi from Barcelona), and a lot of cooking...

Daesh has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Catalan President updates the death toll to 12 dead and 80 wounded hospitalized, 15 of them critical. Catalan President and city's Mayor reaffirm that we are peaceful and welcoming people, and that a minority will not ruin that. Minute of silence scheduled for tomorrow at noon GMT +1.

Police sources say there's 3 suspects. One has been arrested, two are on the run. Edit1: Someone skipped a police control and ran over a policeman. Presumed unrelated to the attack, but ugh. Edit2: Official named sources have now confirmed the worse death toll. 13 dead and over 50 wounded is...

A different official source says 1 dead and 32 wounded, there's conflicting official death tolls. Unofficial sources say one of the suspects is from Ripollet (town 12 miles from Barcelona). One newspaper is reporting that CIA warned Catalan police about Les Rambles being a possible target 2...

(Only creating new posts if there's a significant update so as to not spam) Official death toll now 12, number of wounded still unknown. Edi1: Official death toll now 13. A better English source: BBC Edit2: The passport found is from Melilla(North-African Spanish territory). Police...

Situation still fuzzy, but what's been said on live news so far: At least 2 dead, unknown number/severity of wounded. White van drove into La Rambla district (tourist hotspot with a lot of local businesses and markets as well) Van was getting on the sidewalks, swerving to run people over...

I don't think Disney would authorize printing a comic that had Minnie saying "Holy shit what the fuck goddamn AAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

Deadspin: The Fallout From Sportswriting's Filthiest Fuck-Up

4D chess, eh?

Children's food allergies in the U.S., according to the best source I could dredge up, have an overall economic impact of about $25B. Since the authors did not release data granular enough, I make no claims about what percentage of the economic impact corresponds to peanuts, but they claim that...

We're discussing a bunch of people dressed as ghetto clowns brawling with fascists. I care more about the tempo than the nomenclature here.

I prefer ICP vs. NSDAP, snappier line termination for better dance moves. On a wholly unrelated note, and as a bilingual bonus...

In both issues, Democrats have approached them in an 'incremental progress' way ('boiling frog' if you're feeling less charitable). I want universal healthcare and gun control, for the record, but I see the parallels.

I'll point again to the context of why the battle flag appears as a device in all those C.S.A. flags. It was a very popular flag (at the time) on its own, and thus a valid symbol to use as short-hand. If it was hidden, transformed, or lumped up (like, say, Saint George's Cross in the Union Jack...

That's not what we're referencing (but rather uses of the Confederate flag as a device in other C.S.A. flags contemporary to it), but good to know and another good example.

No, I mean as in it's use as a device in other flags, which is a direct parallel to the use of the Confederate device in other flags. There's a wealth of other examples in heraldry and vexillology, but I would have thought this one was most commonly known.