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Worst American Birthdays, vol. XI

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Many amazing people were born on this date: sociologist Emile Durkheim, journalist and labor leader Asa Philip Randolph, the incomparable blues mistress Bessie Smith, and Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci, interestingly enough, once wrote that "the act of procreation and anything that has any relation to...

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We would be remiss in not observing Jackie Robinson Day. Robinson's contribution as a pioneer has probably obscured his talent as a ballplayer; between age thirty and thirty-three, he posted.

Crocodile Tears

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You know what's funny? Free market theologians complaining about sufferings of "disadvantaged minorities" at the hands of people like . . . uh . . . John Muir. No, really. Because if there's anything responsible for the deaths of 11 million poor children each year, it's...
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