Today is the 2nd of 11 days of our spring break. A part of me would like to totally ignore anything related to my teaching…
Posts published in “History”
Darn those class commitments, aligning us to our political choices in a democracy, made worse by all those folks who knew they were in that…
No, not by the US but by that jolly benevolent Empire of the British. Of course, it was started by a corporation. But something changed…
As each day passes, Trump adds to an already impressive body of evidence arguing that he should be considered the worst president in U.S. history. But,…
WaPo published an update to the estimation of whether Trump was more than a rhetorical trope as a fascist, or more of an actual, historical fascist.…
Part of my preparation for becoming a teacher, at my MAT program at Johns Hopkins, was to take time to reflect on what I was…
It is more of a comment on Trump’s “cancel culture” that the Aurora, Colorado police would bust up a crowd of violinists peacefully demonstrating a bias death.…
Harry Enten of CNN has an article on how history is against any dramatic rise in Trump’s approval ratings by election time. Presidential approval ratings,…
Trump’s revanchism now manifests itself in the second attempt by Trump to recycle old grievances, mainly from ”Obamagate” first proposed in 2017. Because Trump’s history has always…
Another article from Jacobin magazine worth your reading. The #1619 Project is important for reminding us that while racism is as American as apple pie,…
Trump claimed cases would go from fifteen to zero on 28 February. Cases are over a million and he keeps raising his prideful death total now…
Winston Churchill once said, “history will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” Now, Churchill was a pretty good (amateur) historian, and…
First of all, Daily Kos’ Denise Oliver Velez has a great rundown of The New York Times’ 1619 Project right here. So go read that…
Here we are again. Let’s hop on into the not-so-wayback machine, and take a quick look at the political stories and events we were obsessing…
Welcome to what I hope will become a daily feature. This carnival we call the Trump Presidency is like an out of control merry-go-round, shit…
While I’ve spent the last couple days writing about events in Spain, it’s important to remember the other major separatist/independence news story: Kurdistan. So, while…
Things are… not going well in Spain right now. How to breed an infertile, mentally disabled king, who soils himself regularly, and sparks a regional war…
Today, Sean Spicer declared that Assad was worse than Hitler, because the latter “didn't even sink to using chemical weapons”. That’s wrong for one really…
MoDo celebrates Easter as always: a turn at stylish whining. “Good Riddance, Carrie Mathison” This “Carrie Mathison” is the lead character, played by Claire Danes,…
Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln! When Lincoln anniversaries come around I sometimes enjoy comparing the views of the first Republican president to the Republican party of…
