Refuge in Audacity/Real Life: Difference between revisions

*** Gordon Thomas' "Gideon's Spies" details an interesting mix of fact and speculation about the Mossad.

**The reasoning is understandable. Often enough a dictator's victims would like to kill him but even more want to just be rid of him. Dumping him in the care of some state that will take responsibility for his security while he spends the rest of his life in hedonism is a compromise and one might be pardoned for thinking it [[Lesser of Two Evils|less bad]] than getting a few extra brave men killed just for the satisfaction of revenge.

* The state of Georgia finally caved into the pressure to change its state flag in the early 2000s because of its depiction of the Confederate battle flag. The new flag is simply a recreation of the less-famous Confederate ''national'' flag with the state seal within the blue field of stars.

* In an interview, [[Johnny Depp]] recounts a story in which he buys some paint with the intent of defacing a billboard with his face on it because he doesn't like the picture. He is caught by a security guard, who, upon realizing who he is, tells him to get on with it.