This is the grave of Robert Toombs. Born in Washington, Georgia in 1810, Toombs grew up in the slaver elite. His father ran his slaves in the fields, profiting from their free labor. Toombs was educated that this was the only way to live and...
Author: Erik Loomis
I don't know why in the living hell anyone would watch a State of the Union speech even if it was someone who wasn't a fascist scumbag. As always, if.
This is the grave of Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, or Chief Joseph to the genocidal white Americans. Born in 1840 in the Nez Perce's home of the Wallowa Valley in what became Oregon,.
As an aging man, one has experiences. However, there are some things that man should not know and one of them is three feet of snow in front of your house. I went to bed last night about 11. It was snowing a little bit....
This is the grave of Robert Rossen. Born in 1908 in New York, Robert Rosen grew up in the Jewish immigrant center of the Lower East Side. I am not.
I've seen quite a bit of music this month. Some I will talk about this week, some in the next couple of these posts. The biggest thing I did was.
Last May, I discussed this ridiculous Trump Burger restaurant in Texas, owned by a Lebanese immigrant of course, where everything was branded TRUMP, including the buns. What I did not know until today is that the owner of Trump Burger was arrested by ICE in...
This is the grave of Mordecai Johnson. Born in 1890 in Paris, Tennessee, Johnson grew up reasonably well of for his time and place and race, which still wasn't much..
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles's 2019 film Bacurau is an absolutely brilliant horror-western that is a very lightly disguised allegory for life under Bolsonaro. Set in the "very near.
Back in the 90s, it was a favorite unionbusting tactic of meatpacking companies to hire all the undocumented immigrants they could, then when they went out on strike, they'd call INS and have all their workers arrested. Great labor policy. The terrible PR this caused...
If you remember back to ye olde days of a decade ago, Kristi Noem was a regular Republican politician. Sure, her positions were evil. But she just looked like a.
While we can't assume that people involved in the tourist industry voted for Trump at higher rates than the rest of the population, we can definition use the context of.