by Kevin Burton On the night of the first full day of the return of the American Nazi Party to power in the United States, I watched the first ever episode of the Carol Burnett Show and of Laugh-In. I needed a laugh. Badly I did this via Amazon. Before that time …
Category Archives: US Presidents
The Latest Ripoff: Surveillance Pricing
by Charlotte Cowles thecut.com It’s 5 a.m. and your toddler is crying. His forehead is hot. You remember, cursing yourself, that you are out of Tylenol. You squint at your phone and order more, selecting the quickest delivery option. Actually, that’s not soon enough. You pay the $2 fee so that it will …
Remembering The Man, Jimmy Carter
by Kevin Burton Classes let out on the day of Jimmy Carter’s inauguration as the 39th President of the United States. So I watched part of it in the library at the Ohio State School for the Blind in Columbus. Carter and his wife Rosalynn famously got out of their limousine and walked …
Ten Festive Facts About Christmas Trees
by Nicole Garner Meeker interestingfacts.com Christmas trees are perhaps the most recognizable symbol of the winter holiday season. Whether you buy one from a tree lot or cut your own, nearly 30 million evergreens are sold every year in the lead-up to Christmas, and that’s just a fraction of the 350 million that are …
A Shoutout To The Quiet People Among Us
by Kevin Burton The story goes that an opera singer, seated next to Calvin Coolidge at a dinner said she had made a wager that she could get him to say three words. “You lose,” said the famously taciturn 30th US president. Mr. Keller, my history teacher at Wichita South High was …
A Way Americans Can Avoid Fascist President
by Silvia Marchetti CNN While many communities around the world have been wondering what to make of Donald Trump’s presidential re-election, a village on the Italian island of Sardinia has sniffed a potential opportunity. Like many other places in rural Italy, Ollolai has long been trying to persuade outsiders to move in to revive …
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It’s Official: Everybody Is Stressed By Election
by Katia Riddle National Public Radio Seven out of 10 adults in the U.S. say the future of the nation is a significant source of stress. The concern crosses party lines. Every year the American Psychological Association takes a look at the leading causes of stress in the U.S., and publishes an annual report. …
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Rosalynn Carter’s Controversial Nanny
by Kathy Ehrich Dowd Time Magazine Mary Prince, a Black woman who had been convicted of murder, was already a controversial figure at Jimmy Carter’s 1977 Presidential Inauguration. Although she was incarcerated, Prince was given permission to travel to Washington, D.C. for the event and arrived in a dress made of material given …
More Words For Crimes And Misdemeanors
by Kevin Burton Children utter phrases such as “cross my heart, hope to die” to self-administer a kind of playground oath. But it’s not binding. Today our friends at Merriam-Webster bring us words dealing with what we say, or refuse to say, under a legal oath in a court of law. But …
Words From The Wrong Side Of The Law
by Kevin Burton Some of the entries on today’s word list from Merriam-Webster I learned as a wee lad, by following the news about the federal government. If it hadn’t been for the Nixon Administration and the Watergate scandal, I would have thought hush money was money a parent spends to keep the …
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