Just the Vaxx, Ma’am, Meets Dis Coarse Discourse 0
AL.com carries a round up lies being spread on “social” media about COVID-19 vaccines.
We are a society of stupid.
American Exceptionalism 0
David runs the numbers. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Meta: Shaun Mullen 0
It has been a year.
I have removed the link to Shaun Mullen’s obituary from the sidebar.
I was privileged to have had breakfast with him many years ago at a small cafe in Newark, Delaware.
He was a friend.
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.
