Below this church lies the unmarked grave of Diego de Vargas. Born in 1643 in Madrid, Diego de Vargas Zapata y Luján Ponce de León y Contreras, better known by the slightly shorter name Don Diego de Vargas in the history of New Mexico, came...
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I knew there was something I was supposed to do before the year ended. Oh well, Happy New Year to all you undead delinquents out there.
It's 2026 in Bangkok. Turns out, everything this year is exactly the same as 2025 so far, a truly terrible year. But hey, celebrate if you want, pretend like 2026.
Trump's leadership mode being "mafia don" is a cliched description, but cliches are generally accurate, and I don't think there's a better one: President Trump’s surprise veto of a bill related to a Colorado water project sparked a sharply worded complaint from prominent MAGA lawmaker...
Agustín Codazzi, Manuel Maria Paz, Felipe Pérez - Atlas geográfico e histórico de la República de Colombia, 1890. Political division of (Greater) Colombia in 1824. Map XI of the Geographic and Historic Atlas.
My post about Homage to Catalonia produced many interesting responses, including an email from a scholar who tells me that Orwell's beliefs at the time about the actual role of.
Nicholas Wright - Unsplash In the wake of the temporary renaming of the Kennedy Center and Richard Grenell's threat to sue Chuck Redd for cancelling his performance, more artists have cancelled their performances at the Kennedy Center. The canceled performances to date include shows previously...
This is the grave of Togo West. Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1942, West grew up in the Black middle class of that southern city. His parents were educators,.
This gets people to give money to Donald Trump: (Images are actual images at top of email). Some people are saying: This is SAD!I’m sitting here. Alone. In the war.
Throw another thing on the "boy 2025 really sucked huh" pile: Isiah Whitlock Jr., a veteran character actor known for memorable roles in such series as The Wire, Veep, Your Honor and The Residence and a number of Spike Lee movies, died Tuesday in New York. He was 71. His manager Brian Liebman...
As is well known, DOGE and related Republican cuts to the federal government did not save any material amounts of money, but they were very good at making many government.
Karen Zhao - Unsplash A brief note: It is perfectly normal to despise Melania Trump. But if you can't express your distaste without being a sexist shithead go to one.