hugh hefner

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,542

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 30, 2024

This is the grave of Hugh Hefner. One of the grossest people in American history was born in Chicago in 1926. He grew up in a middle class household. His father was an accountant and his mother a teacher. They were a conservative Methodist family...

Culture

RIP Hef: The Man Who Had It All

By Christa Blackmon

On September 28, 2017

Hugh Hefner was a vanguard of free speech, a visionary of sex and politics, and also...ew The legendary creator of Playboy has passed away at the age of 91. I'm.

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DJ Given the topicality of discussions about the Late Bronze Age Collapse thanks to the movie the Odyssey, a favorite theory of mine is that the collapse was caused at least in part by a plague, and...
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Joe Yes. I recall when I first saw that photo, my reaction was “please pull the trigger!”
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Keaaukane In Kim Stanley Robinson's book Years of Rice and Salt, the starting point is what if the Black Death killed over 90% of Europe. Depopulated, the Renaissance doesn't happen, nor the age of...
Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,205 · August 10, 2026
witlesschum I've heard the Renaissance called the first successful mass marketing campaign, convincing people that Italian art was the best by convincing them it had something to do with Rome, which everyone...
Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,205 · August 10, 2026