Those who favor retaining monuments to the Confederacy often say that removing them has the effect of erasing history, and that they honor regional heritage and important figures with virtues as well as faults. Of course, a huge amount of … Continue reading
Near Nashville Tennessee just off I-65 one can see what may be the single most bizarre and unintentionally hilarious statue in the world, supposedly depicting Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Reportedly made of injection-molded fiberglass possibly covered with foil (though … Continue reading
As I don’t need to tell you, there’s a major debate currently going on in the United States about public statues honoring Civil War figures from the Confederacy. Those who advocate removing the statues object to honoring people who tried … Continue reading
Back in November Kurt Eichenwald wrote a piece for Newsweek titled “The Myths Democrats Swallowed That Cost Them The Presidential Election.” It makes for interesting reading, but what particularly struck me was the opening: On Friday, I almost assaulted a … Continue reading
March is Women’s History Month, and to close out the month here is one of its great moments: Link: https://youtu.be/DhT3syDBEn4 (Black history has its own great moments as well, such as this.) by … Continue reading
On this day in 1895 the great orator and author Frederick Douglass attended a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington DC. He was a powerful advocate for equal rights for all, including voting rights for women, and … Continue reading
Kevin Drum had an interesting post yesterday about a course change among Republicans in Congress. Even many members of the House Freedom Caucus, the farthest right group of Republicans in the House of Representatives, are saying they plan to vote … Continue reading
NPR, which stands either for National Public Radio or News for Pigs and Rabbits, has managed to find ten things about this year’s election that weren’t awful. The full list is here and includes Bill Clinton playing with balloons, Bernie … Continue reading
Like most of you, I suspect, I vividly remember the full-time television news coverage in the immediate aftermath of the horrific and monstrous terrorist attacks on the United States fifteen years ago today. The networks did a reasonably good job … Continue reading
The latest XKCD web comic: Link: http://xkcd.com/1686/ In more or less the same vein, consider this: Below courtesy of YouTube are the first two episodes of the Buck Rogers Saturday matinee serial starring Bust Crabbe, which premiered in 1939, the … Continue reading