This is the grave of John Sutter. Born in Kandern, Baden, in what is now Germany, in 1803, Johann Sutter came from a middle-class family. His father was a foreman at a lumber mill. He was probably destined for a slightly better life than that....
Author: Erik Loomis
Here's my reading list for February. This is last month's list and you can follow it back from there. Professional Reading: Jacqueline Jones, No Right to an Honest Living: The.
This is the grave of George Neumayr. Well, when you run across a grave like this in a cemetery, you snap a quick picture and figure you might find more.
I saw two shows last week, part of a very busy February after a long show drought in January. The one I was most excited about Marissa Nadler, who played a little club in Providence that usually has metal shows and is a kind of...
This is the grave of Caroline Still Anderson. Born in 1848 in Philadelphia, Caroline Still grew up pretty well off for the Black community of that time. Her parents were.
It's far from the first time crazy Cuban exiles have united with crazy Americans and tried to invade Cuba, but we should probably talk about the newest time since you.
I have nothing real to offer here, but I know I am not the only one fascinated by the fact that the leftist Zohran Mamdani is the one Democrat able to manipulate Trump effectively, even to the point of getting Trump to overrule Stephen Miller...
A sign for 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer earlier in the day, is displayed during a vigil Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in.
This is the grave of Pappy O'Daniel. Born in 1890 in Malta, Ohio, Wilbert Lee O'Daniel grew up mostly in Kansas. His father died in an accident when the boy.
This is the grave of Robert Toombs. Born in Washington, Georgia in 1810, Toombs grew up in the slaver elite. His father ran his slaves in the fields, profiting from their free labor. Toombs was educated that this was the only way to live and...
I don't know why in the living hell anyone would watch a State of the Union speech even if it was someone who wasn't a fascist scumbag. As always, if.
This is the grave of Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, or Chief Joseph to the genocidal white Americans. Born in 1840 in the Nez Perce's home of the Wallowa Valley in what became Oregon,.