On December 24, 1913, striking Italian copper workers in Calumet, Michigan were holding their Christmas party in the town's crowded Italian Hall building. Someone shouted "fire." Could have been company.
In these trying times, I feel compelled to re-up the Foreign Entanglements discussion of our prospects in the War on Christmas:
Get ready for the Jim Webb wave! The Fred Thompson of 2016 has arrived!
The decline of toy guns seems like it would be an absolute positive. The decline of toy guns so cops don't mistake them for real and shoot kids means it.
Because it's my birthday and I have the God-given right to behave insufferably on it, I'd like to complain about this otherwise excellent list of the top 50 comic book.
Violates the First Amendment.
A company called Gilded Age Greetings is creating Christmas cards for the New Gilded Age: Just when you thought Christmas couldn't get any more expensive... a card company has started.
People write things in the intarwebs. These are some of them: Tom Slee on Uber. Molly Lambert on Paul Thomas Anderson. Why third parties aren't a solution to anything. The.
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