Are you a Maoist who celebrates Valentine's Day? Then Freedom Road has some slogans for your day: Unite world-wide under the magnificent blood-red banner of revolutionary sex/love unfurled by Comrade Valentine! Uphold in word and practice the Comrade Valentine’s Day slogan spontaneously raised by the...
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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.
Let's learn a bit the lovely people we are remembering today: On May 26, 1637, a Puritan force fortified by Native allies massacred a Pequot fort in Connecticut, killing as.
Last year, Whole Foods was one of many companies to force employees to work on Thanksgiving. The employees were very angry about this and seven went on strike at a store in Chicago. In response to the negative publicity, Whole Foods stores in the Midwest...
David Chang speaking some truth: One small consolation is that turkey skin is delicious—no more so than the skin of other birds, but still, it gives you something to look.
K-Mart is forcing its employees to work on Thanksgiving or be fired: Jillian Fisher, who started a petition on Coworker.org asking Kmart to give her mother and other employees the.
My dislike for a lot of traditional Thanksgiving food, especially turkey, is fairly well known around these parts, but I always knew the holiday and its food more or less came out of colonial era New England. What I did know was that the celebration...
This July 4, remember the true cost of freedom: These wild, towering conflagrations garnered support at the beginning of the twentieth century from an unlikely quarter: the national movement for.
Another Decoration Day, another day to remember the Union crushing southerners committing treason to defend slavery. Two best tweets of this Memorial Day: The creation of Arlington National Cemetery is.
Earlier this morning, I summed up each presidency in one tweet. They are collected here. Kelsey Atherton undertook a similar project, also worth reading.
If you are struggling with some last minute shopping ideas, why not give your loved ones what Santa really wants for himself?
Georges Méliès, The Christmas Dream, from 1900.