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Next week, June 17th, is National Garbageman Day. Remember to take care of the guys who collect your rubbish on cold February mornings and hot August afternoons. It is unpleasant, difficult work. Make a small gesture to show how much you appreciate them. We give a lot more pay and percs to more...

I saw the film Pressure. Decent movie but they took enormous liberties with the history. In the alternative universe of the film, there was a war. It pitted the US and UK against Germany. There was an invasion at Normandy in June 1944. Beyond that, lots of creative license trying to make the...

Heard something this morning. And this caused me to find the original article. The cast-iron prose of reality by Vasili Kashin One wonders if Mr. Kashin will have a terrible accident and fall out of a window soon.

A friend told me this and initially I could not believe it. Apparently royalties for writing a tune are different depending on whether there are lyrics or not. the composer (Alexander Courage, in this case) gets all the royalty money if there are no lyrics. If there are lyrics, the composer of...

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A documentary about a B-17 crew is to be released this spring. Here is the trailer and teaser trailer: Looks like archival footage and interviews with survivors. This looks pretty good.

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Okay, this is explicitly not political (and I do not expect it to evolve into anything political), but here it goes... Last weekend I drove to Assisi. The setting is beautiful (on the side of one of the foothills of the Apennine Mountains), maybe an hour or two north of Rome. Lots of basilicas...

Spanberger ran a pretty good campaign, speaking a lot about "affordability" and emphasizing her moderation and ability to work across the aisle. Republicans ran another "I have a black friend, too" candidate who was uninspiring. The Republican turnout in 2025 was substantially less than that of...

This came from Twitter, so caveat lector. Archaeologists in Tunisia have found evidence of massive child sacrifice at Carthage. This not slave children being sacrificed. This was the children of "noble" families. No wonder they needed Balearic slingers and Spanish infantry. Here is an Oxford...

Y'all. "Give Him Cone Bread." You can't be sad while listening to Beau Jocque. And the more traditional, Cajun Mardi Gras. I hope you get the baby in your King cake,

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I had never heard of this, but there is a competition yearly in Valdez Alaska to see who can take off and land in the shortest distance. Last year, the winner was 9 feet 5 inches. Nice headwind helps a bit.

Not sure what existing thread to fit this into. It seems like it's own subject. And I expect we will hear more in coming weeks. “The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer” "Much like with the HSS program, autism claims to Medicaid in Minnesota have skyrocketed in recent...

Not sure what to make of this. An American woman and a man in Colombia as tourists. Muggers attack the woman (it seems trying to steal her mobile phone). The man, amazingly, retreats and leaves the woman to her own devices. Unrelated bystanders intervene to save the woman and arrest the perp...

Right now, USF playing Old Dominion in the Cure Bowl in Orlando. USF up 10-7 late in the 2nd qtr.

I do not know anything about this guy, but it seems he is married to an American woman and they decided to live in the US, not Germany. He arrived with the stereotypes, and explains why they are wrong. I have spent some time in Germany, and work with Germans. I really like Germany and admire my...

November 21 will mark the anniversary of the Son Tay raid. If you are not familiar with this special operations raid, you should be. Colonel "Bull" Simons rehearsed the raid so often (~170 times) that, by the time the raid was launched, the American prisoners of war had already been moved...

Has someone on the board heard of this guy, Sean Dietrich. Combination music hostorian and musician and has a blog and does occasional videos. Here is one I stumbled across. He does shows here and there. Doing a couple in Birmingham in December. Might be interesting.