This is the grave of Otto Kerner. Born in 1908 in Chicago, Kerner grew up in the Czech immigrant community there. He was a real smart kid and managed to get into Brown, where he graduated in 1930. Wonder what that jump was like, out...
Author: Erik Loomis
Here's an event that exists: It has been described as Urban Legend. More mysterious and barking spiders than the Barkley Marathons. The International Taco Bell 50k boasts a higher DNF.
071220-N-3901L-256 SAN DIEGO (Dec. 20,2007)- The U.S. Naval Academy and The University of Utah football teams competed in the annual San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia bowl at Qualcom Stadium..
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus stumbled upon Hispaniola. Part of the revolution he wrought was transforming work in the Americas, because what he wanted and how he treated the Taino there would be repeated throughout the Americas by every European colonial power. What he...
Allow me to cross into Paul's lane for a moment. One thing about being a fan of sports is that you have these athletes in your head for many years..
No one is claiming Tim Johnson was a left-wing stalwart, but can you imagine what it would be like to elect a Democrat to the Senate from South Dakota today?.
Interesting deep dive into how the cryptoboys went all in on Adam Schiff and successfully crushed Katie Porter's attempt to become the Democratic nominee for the California Senate race: But then came crypto, in the form of political action committee Fairshake. The pro-crypto PAC has...
Boeing really can't get out of their own way and now this strike by the Machinists is just entrenched at enormous cost to the company. Boeing and its largest union.
This is the grave of Phineas Banning. Born in 1830 in Wilmington, Delaware, Banning seems to have grown up on the cusp of the middle class in a growing America..
Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. The blaze had tripled in size overnight. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Like so many agencies, FEMA is massively...
A word about our new Nobel Prize for Literature. The only of her books I have read is The Vegetarian, though the others look great too. This is kind of.
On October 10, 1936, movie projector unionists in New York lobbed tear gas into a theatre on Times Square in New York. Although unrelated to striking American Federation of Musicians.