Black and White Colored Memories: Street Prophets Thursday Coffee Hour
Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. When I first started taking pictures I had a Brownie...
View Article1/24/16 TILT (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY )
1)Adult Luna Moths never eat, in fact, they don't even have a mouth. 2) Italy’s parliament is set to decide whether to join the rest of Europe in recognizing same-sex unions or stay on the side of the...
View ArticlePrognosis for America: Sanders or Civil War
I will make a prognosis for the United States. Considering the deep internal divisions in the nation, which are only growing deeper and more inflamed by the day, I see only two alternatives for...
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American veteran writes open letter: 'To My Friends Who Support Donald Trump'
A traveling photographer who goes by “TheJeremyNix” recently penned an open letter after being baffled by friends who are Donald Trump supporters. Sound familiar? TheJeremyNixIn his bio, Jeremy Nix, a...
View ArticleThe Powder Keg: How Malheur Could Escalate
In the recent past, conventional wisdom has held that a right-wing revolt in this country was unlikely. The feedback I have heard most often is that either the government response would be swift and...
View ArticleThe End of the War
The present election will decide whether our past crises meant anything at all. (The full version of this will appear Friday at Danablankenhorn.com.) It’s not that Republicans are against Democrats....
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IAN: Saturday Feb. 20, 2016
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires,...
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The Battle of Nashville
The Battle of Nashville, in December 1864, destroyed an entire Confederate Army and ended the Civil War in what was then the western part of the United States. But today the battle has been largely...
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Economic inequality and ecological unravelling are not two issues but one...
After trying to consolidate several comments into a coherent diary for a few weeks now, without much success, I’m just reposting the whole series. Perhaps this will serve to take your mind off the...
View ArticleWe are the left flank of the line
History is my passion. I can’t get enough. I have never been in the military but the history of war fascinates me. Because I read so much about war, I have come to think of life as war, a series of...
View Article3/6/16 ~ The TILT! (THINGS I LEARNED TODAY)
March is Women's History MonthToday isAlamo DayDentist's DayNamesake DayNational Frozen Food DayNational White Chocolate Cheesecake Dayvia HistoryNetLouisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) most remembered as...
View ArticleWhy History Matters; Especially Now
And here’s where you can find it, in fun, fascinating and gripping readsBy Rod Proctor As I write this from the perspective of a progressive living, and voting, in Oklahoma – among the...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Unheeded Lessons from History
Sometimes great comments and great links are found way down in comment threads and don’t get the series attention they deserve.In the comment thread to OPOL’s most recent eminent diary lay buried a...
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We are not 'Confederates.' We are Democrats.
This is my black family — from Loudoun County, Virginia. Seated in the center is my great grandmother, Amelia Weaver Roberts, who was enslaved and emancipated as a result of the Union victory in the...
View ArticleNo, Jim Geraghty, it's just the Republicans
Jim Geraghty of the National Review has admitted his party is falling apart. But then he goes on to a false equivalence claiming the Democrats are also collapsing. For a long time, the question “why...
View ArticleCrucify Him -- the unintended consequences of bigotry, hatred and intolerance!
Some of my best friends are, women, black, gay multi-racial, Asian and far Left Liberals, but many of my best friends are ardent conservative Republicans. Some of my best friends Feel the Bern, while...
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Photo Diary: Fort Jackson GA
Fort Jackson, located just outside Savannah GA, is the site of a brick and earth fortress from the period before the War of 1812. Listed on the National Register of Historical Places, it is run by a...
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Photo Diary: Fort Pulaski GA
After the War of 1812, the US decided to construct a large number of defensive forts to protect harbors along the east coast. One of these was Fort Pulaski, just outside Savannah GA. Begun in 1829, it...
View ArticlePolitician is fighting U of L as they try to take down their own 121-year-old...
Kentucky’s University of Louisville will be taking down and dismantling and then storing a Confederate monument that has stood on the U of L campus for 121 years.The stone monument honoring Kentuckians...
View Article'Captain America: Civil War' uses the fun of superheroes to explore power and...
A common interpretation of the superhero genre is that its appeal is based in being a modern-day equivalent of the legends of ancient mythology. Both are fantasies which use outlandish elements to...
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