This is from 1940, when the dial telephone was introduced. It seems not only from another time, but from another planet. Here’s the part where a woman goes on and on explaining much more than you ever needed to know … Continue reading →
(1) New British PM Elizabeth (there’s that name again!) Truss has lifted the fracking ban. That certainly seems reasonable. But it’s not all that common for leaders to do something reasonable, is it? The end of the fracking moratorium is … Continue reading →
She is so impressive and also so good at breaking down what she’s doing in order to teach othes:
Continue reading →This Bee Gees song from 1974 is obscure, but I love it. They sound like a choir:
Continue reading →A woman named Eliza Fletcher was forcibly abducted while jogging in the early morning in Memphis, and her suspected killer has been apprehended, with a wealth of evidence to tie him to the violent crime, including video of the abduction … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a slightly edited version of a previous post.] Labor Day is the bookend standing at the opposite end of summer from its holiday beginning, Memorial Day. July Fourth is summer’s early peak, with the promise of long … Continue reading →
This guy has quite a story: He became a well-regarded professor of literature at Princeton after the war. He also wrote this memoir. Oh, and in the video he’s 98 years old.
Continue reading →This is kind of fun:
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