Clio, Muse of History: Lessons Learned, 27th Edition

[Red Square]

The Department of Retrospective Wisdom is proud to announce a new interactive installation honoring our longstanding tradition of learning nothing.

Behold Clio, Muse of History, commemorating yesterday’s mistake while stepping directly onto tomorrow’s.

It's been said that history repeats itself three times: first as tragedy, and a couple more times - for the stupid. The second and third rounds come with better talking points, worse memory, and a fresh supply of volunteers to insist this time it’s different - right up until the handle finds its target. The tragedy hurts; the reruns are just slapstick with paperwork. History isn’t hard to read, but it’s hard to practice while you’re busy posing.

See more such exhibits in our Museum of Permanent Amnesia at the Karl Marx Treatment Center.

[Red Square]

[Colonel Obyezyana]

Replies to this post have been far too slow in coming.

Come on, Comrades, step on it!

[jackalopelipsky]

The obvious solution is to ban rakes.

[Red Square]

If stepping on rakes is outlawed, only the outlaws will step on rakes.

[Colonel Obyezyana]

I wonder if this installation is still on display in our Museum of Permanent Amnesia at the Karl Marx Treatment Center:

It clearly represents a group that walks in rakestep.

[Margaret]

By their fruitcakes we shall know them.

[jackalopelipsky]

Get a rake!

[Red Salmon]

Most Equally Esteemed Comrades,

I wonder if Captain Neck Beard there has ever considered flank security or use of cover?  This fish also wonders if Minnesota allows open carry?  Isn’t Captain Neck Beard “brandishing”?  I wonder how accepting he would be at other times with persons strolling about “his area” displaying semiautomatic rifles?  He should stay close to cover.  I doubt he could scamper very far without experiencing a cardiac event.  Just sayin’.  Oh, and when you shoot at Law Enforcement, they multiply.  Seemingly exponentially.  Where will Captain Neck Beard’s reinforcements come from?

More to the point, are the Democrats looking for a Fort Sumpter?  They might want to skip ahead a bit to find out where that leads.  

Abomination From The Deep,

Red Salmon

[jackalopelipsky]

In ancient times, salting the fields of your conquered foes was how things were handled, can we update by raking Neck Beard’s yard? Maybe rake the whole neighborhood?