As some of you know, I am fascinated by the places people live. Weird, humble abodes and houses with bowling alleys in them. More modern, "classy" monuments to wealth. I love it all. In that spirit, please enjoy this tour of the world's Trumpiest, weirdest...
Month: August 2017
This is the grave of LeRoy Neiman. Born in 1921 in St. Paul, Minnesota, Neiman had a rough upbringing. His father walked out when he was young. His mother married.
On August 20, 1976, the Grunwick Strike began. This strike showed the potential of the British trade union movement to embrace immigrant workers for the first time, but its defeat.
The great Dick Gregory, one of the most amazing living Americans, has died. Gregory was both a pioneering comedian who influenced people such as Richard Pryor and someone who was at the front lines of civil rights and racial justice for decades. More than a...
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Now this my friends is what you do with statues of horrible people who oppressed and killed others. Here's what Paraguayans did with a statue of dictator Alfredo Stroessner (1954-89)..
When you realize winning in real life is harder than on the internet pic.twitter.com/hlrX2jeCaO— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) August 19, 2017 Today, the fine people of Boston overwhelmed a Nazi rally. The President of the United States has some thoughts on the subject he wishes to...
What is the shelf life of "Democrats are the real racists because Robert Byrd was a member of the KKK before most Americans living today were born"? Because it's amazing.
Paul Allen's team has found the Indianapolis: We've located wreckage of USS Indianapolis.
I've ranted against the bottled water industry before. It's a completely useless product for most people, who have perfectly good water in the taps. It privatizes water supplies for profit, which is antithetical to basic moral values. It drains local water sources and spreads that...
This is the grave of Shirley Chisholm. Born in 1924 in Brooklyn, Chisholm, then known as Shirley St. Hill, was the daughter of Caribbean immigrants and grew up poor. In.
On Ben Sasse's inexplicably (or, perhaps, all-too-explicably) latest fake-moderate viral Facebook thing, just read Paul Musgrave's thread. I can't top it.