This is the grave of Laurent Clerc. Born in 1785 in La Blame France, a small town in the foothills of the Alps, Clerc grew up well off. His father was the town's mayor. But Clerc was not a healthy kid. He was deaf and...
Author: Erik Loomis
On September 12, 1934, the Rhode Island National Guard opened fire on a group of people loosely associated with striking textile workers in nearby mills who were throwing rocks and.
There's a fundamental difference between Charlie Kirk and Ezra Klein. If someone shot Ezra Klein, Kirk would have found it hilarious, as he found the near assassination of Nancy Pelosi's.
Someone really important died yesterday, someone who added a lot to American life and culture. Naturally, I am discussing Flo from Alice.
A lot of white Americans have moved to the three fancy but central neighborhoods of Mexico City since the pandemic. I understand why--Roma especially is a fantastic neighborhood. Unsurprisingly, this.
The least compelling court case in global history would be Donald Trump suing the New York Times for publishing his letter to Epstein. Which doesn't mean the Times won't cave.
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 13: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (C) (D-NY) meets with newly-elected Democratic senators-elect Kyrsten Sinema (L) (D-AZ) and Jacky Rosen (R) (D-NV) in his office at the U.S. Capitol November 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. Both Sinema and Rosen were formerly...
This is the grave of Evel Knievel. Born in 1938, Robert Knievel was a crazy motherfucker. He was born in Butte, home of many crazy people. The elevation, the space,.
Trump continues his tour of working class populism by making sure one sandwich shop forces its workers to sign noncompete agreements that will stop them from working at Subway next:.
Ah............. Two key figures in the Iran-Contra affair quietly married last month, nearly 40 years after the scandal rocked US politics and President Ronald Reagan’s administration. Oliver North married his former secretary, Fawn Hall, on August 27 in Virginia, according to a copy of the...
This is the grave of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Born in 1825 in Baltimore, Watkins grew up in the city's free Black community. Both of her parents were free. But.
This is the grave of Louis Lassen. Born in 1865, Ludvig Lassen came from Schleswig, which was part of the land Denmark lost to the Prussians in 1864 that helped.