Bob Owens (known to long-time readers as TIDOS Yankee) has passed away: Bob Owens, editor of the popular pro-gun blog BearingArms.com, died Monday in what authorities have ruled a suicide. Officials say Owens shot himself in the head near his North Carolina home. He was found around...
On May 10, 1837, New York City banks announced they were suspending specie payments. This began the Panic of 1837, the first of the nation's many major periodic economic collapses.
[caption id="attachment_91292" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Cue endless screaming[/caption] The President of the United States has fired FBI Director James Comey. The FBI has been investigating the allegations of the Trump administration's.
My friend has a theory, and it's an interesting one. One variant of Trump's Razor holds that all of his behavior is ultimately rooted in his narcissism. As has been clear for a while, he's fairly easily to goad. He's obsessed with slights against him. That kind...
Back in the 1990s I used to have lunch with Archibald Cox regularly in the CU faculty lounge (For many years he spent his summers in Boulder). Archie, as he.
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While no contamination was released by today's tunnel collapse at Hanford, it's very much worth noting that the infrastructure that is supposedly keeping our the radioactive legacy of our nuclear program safe is slowly crumbling or was never properly erected in the first place. And if...
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Southern Comfort has no actual whiskey in it, as it is a vile substance that makes low-grade Canadian whiskey look like high-end Scotch..
Nobody could have etc.: Perhaps Comey’s most surprising revelation was that Huma Abedin — Weiner’s wife and a top Clinton deputy — had made “a regular practice” of forwarding “hundreds.
A link to a New York Magazine entered my twitter timeline today and articles about real estate for the 1 percent (especially in New York) are like catnip to me for reasons I'm not entirely clear on, so I read it. It's an amusing enough article...
While the world burns with new horrors daily, the old horrors continue, such as child labor for global supply chains that protect multinational corporations from responsibility by offloading all risk.
New Data: voter suppression was enough to cost Clinton Wisconsin. https://t.co/VLVc7rlgyH pic.twitter.com/lfiB0xOAnR— sean. (@SeanMcElwee) May 9, 2017 Like a well-oiled machine that is actually well-oiled. A new memo from Priorities.