Day 533: Lies! History Is Teeming With Lies!

originally published June 16, 2013 It should come as no surprise that much of the trivial minutiae with which people pepper their conversations is either completely false or so deeply steeped in bullshit, the smell will linger for weeks. Sometimes the misconception becomes so widely proliferated it evolves into the understood truth. But truth is […]

Day 527: When Molasses Attacks!

originally published June 10, 2013 I know – 1919 was a very different age. Morals were gauged by what now seems an antiquated perspective, cultural dynamics were driven by significantly different forces, and the very fundamental tenets of American life existed within parameters and motivations that would have been radically different than those which we […]

Day 523: The Pilecki Affair

originally published June 6, 2013 Anyone with even a little Polish blood fluming through their veins may want to pour themselves a tall glass of national pride while they read today’s article. There are war heroes, there are kick-ass war heroes, and then there’s Witold Pilecki. In August of 1943, Pilecki singlehandedly changed the very […]

Day 520: Bohemian Grove – Where It All Goes Down

originally published June 3, 2013 Chances are, you have probably sat across the table from someone who has tried to point out all the little goings-on on a dollar bill, tying it to the Illuminati, the Freemasons, Fox News, or Menudo – one of those secret organizations that is most likely controlling every snippet of […]

Day 518: The Super-Spy From South Africa

originally published June 1, 2013 Some stories are far too textured and layered to be adequately contained within a thousand words. Unfortunately, since I’m doing this on a purely voluntary, non-paid basis, I lack the time to double or triple my volume before my daily deadline. I try to be concise. Hit the broad points. […]

Day 517: With A Six-Gun & A Skirt

originally published May 31, 2013 I love a good story from the Old West, I did even before last fall when I was required to love good stories from the Old West in order to pass a film class on the westerns genre. More than anything, I love finding quirky stories that have slipped through the cultural […]

Day 509: If She Looks Like A Pig, Sounds Like A Pig And Eats Like A Pig…

originally published May 23, 2013 Next time someone calls you pig-headed, you’d best confirm whether they’re referring to your stubborn nature or likening you to a seventeenth-century mythical medical mystery. Remember that Seinfeld episode when Kramer was convinced he’d seen a pig-boy in the hospital? It turns out that was actually a folklore reference to […]

Day 502: Coco Chanel… The Nazi?

originally published May 16, 2013 As a middle-class white North American shlub, blindly stumbling in the direction of forty, and choosing a day’s wardrobe based on wrinkle content, embedded bulldog hairs and whether or not I have to leave the house and (ugh) interact with people, I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about […]

Day 497: Dust (And Bloodshed) In The Wind

originally published May 11, 2013 To say the Civil War is the twisted, green corn chip in the snack bag of American history would be as much an understatement as it is a weird metaphor. It’s not often that you see so many people fight so vehemently for the right to deny other human beings […]

Day 496: Beware The Lioness Of Brittany

originally published May 10, 2013 The traditional picture of a pirate tends to be a grizzled, foul-smelling slab of stubbly, scowly grit. Many people imagine the unkempt, wild-haired deck-swabbers who served under Johnny Depp in that series of movies about the Disney ride. But – Keira Knightley aside – you won’t usually see the image […]