This is the grave of Donald Meek. Born in 1878 in Glasgow, Scotland, Meek spent the first part of his growing up there before the family came to Canada in the early 1890s. He was a tiny boy and got into performing, specifically as an...
Author: Erik Loomis
One of the things Republican dominated states are doing is cracking down on pornography, as we see here in South Carolina. Theoretically, they are claiming that they are protecting children,.
Good run-down of the state the labor movement here: Union membership went up 139,000 workers to 14,244,000, but the overall workforce grew more, so the union membership rate dropped from.
This is the grave of Addie Wyatt. Born in 1924 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, Wyatt grew up poor. Her family got out of Mississippi in 1930, following the Great Migration to Chicago. That was no easy time either, not as the Great Depression deepened and Black...
I've never really gotten the appeal of Jean Harlow. Every movie she was in centered around her beauty, but I don't get it. I also don't think she was a.
Might as well have a short musical discussion here. Not much going on in the music world right now with the holidays, but we are here. Jimmy Carter probably had.
This is happening and it's good, but there is a complication I'd like to point out: President Joe Biden plans to create two new national monuments in California in the coming days, according to two people briefed on the announcement, aiming to cement his environmental...
Amazon’s new facility will be the single-largest private investment in the history of Bessemer, according to the town’s mayor. This tidbit from a story about an Alabama mom who was.
Since we were already talking about Stephen Ambrose today, let me point out that if reporters want to talk about past elections, it would help if they knew something about.
This is the grave of Stephen Ambrose. Born in 1936 in Lovington, Illinois, Ambrose grew up middle class, the son of a doctor who was in the Navy as a medic in World War II. He grew up mostly in Whitewater, Wisconsin, where he graduated...
This wild 2021 film from the Romanian director Radu Jude is a glorious mess. The story is this--an award-winning teacher at an elite Bucharest private school films herself and her.
January 1 always brings a raft of new laws. Five states have new child labor laws. Blue states think kids should probably be studying. Red states see kids as cheap.