December, 2020 archive
The First “Cleveland Indian” 0
The Bangor Daily News tells the story of the first Native American major league baseball player, a member of Maine’s Penobscot Nation. It is not pretty.
Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
That legacy of racist language and iconography lived on after Sockalexis, and in 1915 the team that was known as the Cleveland Spiders became the Cleveland Indians — a name that the team and its fans claim was chosen to honor Sockalexis and Native people in general, but in reality had a far more complicated, racist origin.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
And a polite society is a clean society.
The gun somehow went off and a bullet hit Jack (the eight-year old son–ed.). Canton Township Police say he was rushed to the hospital, but doctors could not save him.
The Privatization Scam 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell can voucher that it is–er–questionable.
Geeking Out, Seasonal Edition 0
Listening to an episode of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in Firefox on Ubuntu MATE with the Plasma desktop. The Konsole terminal emulator is open to the left of Firefox. The wallpaper is from my collection.
