Archiving, Advancing, Protecting
Fidel Castro was a brutal dictator whose death means the last of the 20th-century strong men are now gone. Fidel Castro was also a revolutionary who was and will be revered by millions worldwide. These statements would seem to be in opposition to one another, yet both are true. To...
With the passing of Thanksgiving, we’re officially in the holiday season. The annual American tradition of breaking out the wreaths and menoras, of cutting down Christmas trees and listening to old white crooners on the radio with some Johnny Mathis thrown in for good measure is upon us. For the...
Matt Mead finally signed off on new science standards for K-12 schools in the state he governs. I’ll save you the google; that state would be Wyoming. This may be one of the most environmentally important developments in education in the last year and you have no damn idea that...
After escorting the Nixons to their helicopter on their way out of the White House, Gerald Ford would then walk back into the White House and take the oath of office. He walked into a house of turmoil. There was the still-pending criminal indictment of former President Nixon, an American public...
Richard Nixon had a tightrope to walk while campaigning for the presidency in 1968. He wanted to keep the Vietnam War going as to not give a diplomatic victory to Democrats, making him the architect of his own “October Surprise,” but he also had to placate a war weary nation....
I’ve spent probably a few hundred hours in the last 8 months writing articles about Trump’s unfitness for president, about how damaging many of his policies and stances will be and how he will combine the disastrous age of Silvio Berlusconi with the alienating age of Duterte to generally fuck up...
This is what I’d do if I were a betting man for Week 9 of the NFL season. My record would be 45-37 (.549) on the season. A skilled handicapper historically hits 55% of games long term. 52% of games won is the break-even point. If I Were...
What a hellish, exhausting year it’s been. Every time there’s a presidential campaign shit gets ugly in America. Emotions run high. Divisions are played on and widened by political masterminds who know how to paint a line and convince us that stepping over it will be the first step in...
This is what I’d do if I were a betting man for Week 9 of the NFL season. My record would be 40-33 (.548) on the season. A skilled handicapper historically hits 55% of games long term. 52% of games won is the break-even point. If I Were A Betting...
I dreamed that I – that I killed you and Danny. But I didn’t just kill you. I cut you up into little pieces.” — Jack Torrance Happy 35th Halloween, “The Shining.” Every genre has its seminal films, those ones that created an equation for all the rest, built plot...