I am going through my old blog and finding some classics that deserve reprint. Yesterday's Pierce post was one. Another is the obituary of Warren Harding in the Eatonville (WA) Dispatch. I found this while going through the paper looking for interesting stories about logging....
Author: Erik Loomis
On October 16, 1859, radical Republican John Brown and a small band of followers, both white and black, launched a violent attack against the American system of slave labor at.
Tarring and feathering has vague connotations of American revolutionaries standing up to Tory oppression or something. Well, here is what tarring and feathering is really like. John Meints, a German-American.
Today's winner for random congressional Republican being a callous jerk during the government shutdown goes to New Mexico's Steve Pearce, for suggesting that furloughed government employees just go get themselves a loan. Did one of Pearce's buddies in the loan industry actually write this Facebook...
One reason Republicans are in no hurry to reopen the government is that it in itself accomplishes major aims of the party. Among the many examples of this is throwing.
Joke from an 1850s quasi-pornographic newspaper: "Why is Ex-President Pierce like the privates of a man? Because he went in Hard and came out Soft." I'm not actually sure what.
I've been out of touch because I'm in Tucson giving papers on logging history/eating burritos/hiking in the desert. I could provide you some links I like. Or I could just send you to all the links at The New Inquiry's always awesome Sunday Reading. So...
Lydia DePillis embraces the job-destroying self-checkout counters at grocery stores. I've railed against this before for stealing jobs from workers, often unionized workers affiliated with the UFCW. I usually like.
On October 10, 1917, the red light district of New Orleans, known as Storyville, closed due to the efforts of reformers seeking to eliminate vice from the city. During the.
Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is a choice with which no one with decent taste in books could disagree. She's deserved it for years. It's also nice to see the Nobel committee pick someone who has so focused on the inner...
Stanley Kauffmann, the dean of American film criticism and one of the greatest film critics in history, has passed. He worked for decades at The New Republic, including in the.
You thought the government shutdown wasn't really affecting you? Well, no new beers can come on the market while the government is shut down. Mike Brenner is trying to open.