I think the toughest trade might be to decide what to carry into the weekend.
I can't recall this amount of bare faced lying and misleadingly hysterical headlines in quite some time. Well, that's a currency and class war for you.
Every empire in its official discourse has said it is not like the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest 'mission civilisatrice.' Edward W. Said