American Uprising by Daniel Rasmussen First books don’t get much better than this recent Harvard graduate’s vitally important, page-turning history of the January, 1811, slave uprising and march on New Orleans.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘American Diversity’
A Tolly Story
Some of you may know that we own and have restored the Aquila, a beautiful 1981 34 ft Tollycaft Tricabin. Tolly is the builder of our boat and a hero to many of us. At 100 years old, he is quite an amazing man. If you do not boat, however, you may not understand our […][...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Protecting the sanctity of body parts.
This image provided by MGMbill shows the cover of the second edition of the “Foreskin Man” comic book series. With his thick flowing, thick blond hair and muscles bulging beneath a blue cape, “Foreskin Man” takes on circumcising doctors and Orthodox Jews in a comic book serie[...]
June 22nd, 2011 - 8:11 am § in America
BREAKING NEWS: I Am An Undocumented Immigrant (VIDEO)
from the Huff Post: Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former senior contributing editor for The Huffington Post, has revealed that he is an undocumented immigrant. In an article in the New York Times Magazine and an interview with ABC News, Vargas says that his mother sent[...]
Ave Challenge: Whoisit?
a. inventor of the “@” b. winner of N. Carolina lottery for $20 million dollars c. Michelle Bachmann’s husband. d. new mayor of Wasilla e. inventor of Apple’s “i” term.[...]
May 25th, 2011 - 6:11 am § in America
HUMOR: What right does Safeway have to call me by name in public, when all I want to do is exchange some money for a head of lettuce and a box of Cheerios?
From Found in Translation by David M.. Maal … Maalik … Malkowsky! …….You’ve probably had that experience too. You exchange pleasantries, swipe your Safeway card and then your debit card (or, heaven forbid, hand over your cash), have your groceries bagged, and what remains[...]
May 24th, 2011 - 9:43 am § in Uncategorized
Fox on The AVE: Radical Rhetoric
Fox. all the news porn that fits.Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com[...]
Sunday Revelations: Is this how the Torah was written?
One of the strengths claimed by Judaism, Islam, and Mormonism is the possession of direct revelation from God. In Orthodox Judaism, this revelation is supposed to include the “unwritten Torah” a set of oral traditions that Jews claim is implicit in the Torah and required to understand [...]
Trump-West Ticket Gains Ground in Iowa
(AP) GOP activists in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina appear deeply intrigued by, and open to, a run by Donald Trump, the publicity-loving business tycoon and host of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” even as he perpetuates falsehoods about Obama’s citizenship and questions the [...]
Flowering of Science, 1687 in Tibet
Seventeenth-century Tibet witnessed a blossoming of medical knowledge, with the construction of a monastic medical college and the penning of several influential medical texts. Tibetan anatomists counted a total of 360 bones in the human body—significantly more than the 206 bones described in West[...]