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Harriet – My Review of the Movie
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I cried the entire 125 minutes of the movie Harriet. It’s well done but it is the opposite of a “feel-good” movie. It is a feel horrible movie (because it is true). After more than a year of research for my book Trials & Tribulations of Modesty Greene, I felt emotionally vested. My book…
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Today in History – Mormon Leader Joseph Smith Tarred & Feathered
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March 24th, 1832 – Joseph Smith, prophet of the Mormon church was allegedly beaten, tarred and feathered. The surface level story is something to the effect that some unfaithful people who didn’t like Joseph because of his religion pulled him out and beat him up. But some sources suggest that Joseph was targeted by…
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March 6th 1981 – Walter Cronkite Signs Off
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March 6th 1981 – Walter Cronkite passes the baton to Mr. Dan Rather. https://youtu.be/jN78W04OQFw?t=8m28s
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Happy Birthday Charles Dickens!
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Feb 7th 1812 is the birthday of one of the greatest writers of all time – Charles Dickens. Dickens is so legendary in fact that many historians credit him with igniting the festive way modern society celebrates Christmas. It’s not difficult to see how. The classic story “A Christmas Carol” is a parable about…
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HL Mencken vs. The State of Arkansas
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Today (Feb 3rd) in the year 1931 the Arkansas state legislature passed motion to “pray for soul of HL Mencken” after he called the state the “apex of moronia” among other things. Let’s rewind a bit. HL Mencken wrote for the Evening Sun in the 1930’s. Around that time he wrote 3 columns about…
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Linda Sarsour Sharia Law – Women’s March Retaliation
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Linda Sarsour is a Palestinian-American activist and executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. There are 2 words in that sentence that instantly make conservatives lose control of their bowels – “arab” and “palestinian.” I’m writing this because Linda Sarsour helped to orchestrate the 2017 Women’s March which was a huge…
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Today in History: The First American Novel “Power of Sympathy” Published
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The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature (1789) is an 18th-century American sentimental novel written in epistolary form by William Hill Brown, widely considered to be the first American novel. The book was published by Isaiah Thomas in Boston on January 21, 1789. In the story, the characters’ struggles illustrate the dangers of seduction and…
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NY Times Retracts Editorial Saying Rockets Can’t Fly
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”Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.” – Albert Einstein The New York Times is a respected paper. Some might even call it a beacon of journalism, but that doesn’t mean it’s unquestioningly right 100% of the time.…