Author: Erik Loomis
On June 23, 1855, a 19 year old slave woman named Celia murdered her master rather than allow him to rape her. She then attempted to burn his body, nearly.
With the Civil War sesquicentennial and the World War I centennial beginning, the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement's major victories has not received the attention I'd like to.
What does "Redskins" mean exactly? What is germane to the conversation? What is semantics? That is debatable. The fact remains that to many Native Americans, the term “redskin” has long.
Tony Gwynn is significantly underrated.
The great jazz pianist has died at the age of 85.
In yesterday's post on prison labor and cheese making, Happy Jack left this amazing powerpoint presentation by Colorado Correctional Industries, the private prison mafia. Entitled, "Motivating Prisoners to Become Business.
Don't have a date on this, but if I was a Cold War American, I would feel pretty good about a nuclear attack eliminating all those takers. Found a report.