Archive For September 30, 2021
One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. – Charles Baudelaire By my tenth glass of wine I started to wonder whether there was something wrong with my palate. Everyone else was marking the wine list with notes like “Pleasant…
Most labor historians today agree that craft unions created an aristocracy of skilled workers at the expense of the unskilled and semiskilled and, at the same time, retarded the further organization of American industry, thus, in the long run, adversely affecting all workers, skilled as well as unskilled. – Philip S. Foner The Steel Strike of…
The racist, misogynistic, imperialistic history of America is no reason not to love her. – Barker Ajax AKA Paper Money Riot The Paper Money Riot, or Exeter Rebellion, was an armed uprising in Exeter, New Hampshire, on September 20, 1786. Following the American Revolution, the nation, states, and many individuals were deeply in debt. The lack of specie and paper currency in circulation made…
Behind the perfection of a man’s style, must lie the passion of a man’s soul. – Oscar Wilde Originating as a series of smaller skirmishes, the Straw Hat Riot of 1922 was an uprising in New York City. The Riot spread due to men wearing straw hats past the unofficial date deemed socially acceptable, September 15. Background Straw hats had appeared…
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is. – Ellen DeGeneres As you might well expect, I am childless. Still getting calls about my student loans a half century after graduation, didn’t think I could afford offspring. And then there’s…
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill Let’s not give up on the entire 21st century yet. It’s easy to be pessimistic about the future, maybe partly because awful is easier to imagine — and kinda more exciting. You probably never saw “Death Race 2000,”…
“In the monthly payroll period ending August 31, 1897, for example, one manager of a Hazleton colliery paid all his miners $8,000 out of a $26,000 payroll. The rest was owed to the company for debts in the company store, for rents on the company houses, for fees deducted to pay the company doctor, and…
“I’m feeling good. I just don’t want to be doing — somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk, the great Resolute Desk, I think wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don’t know, somehow I don’t see it for myself. I just don’t. Maybe…
I locked myself out of my car next to an abortion clinic… It was really awkward asking them for a hanger. 8 Abortion Prevention Tips by Amy Otto 4/6/2015 for The Federalist. [Really.] Sarah Silverman recently shared some rape prevention tips. Here’s some for preventing abortion. Sarah Silverman recently found humor in sharing these rape…
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. – Germaine Greer Critical Gender Theory. In 2048, egged on by President Kamala II, the Democratic vigilante squads, known as The Robins, began to summarily enforce the law of the Land, only Christian thing to do, that all men over forty get a vasectomy. No exceptions for the childless….