August 22, 2017 0 The Political Race Which Was, Literally, a Race John Adams, the second President of the United States, died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the [...]
August 21, 2017 0 The Swarm That Darkened The Skies Today, if you’re in the United States, the sky will get darker during the day — for an hour or [...]
August 18, 2017 0 The Weekender, August 18, 2017 1) “The White Flight of Derek Black” (Washington Post, 27 minutes, October 2016). This [...]
August 17, 2017 0 Drinking and Drive-Overs The Brooklyn Bridge, pictured above, connects Manhattan and Brooklyn. It took fourteen years to build — [...]
August 15, 2017 0 LEGO’s Grayscale Color War “Gray and Blay,” one LEGO fan notes, “is one of the greatest conflicts in LEGO [...]
August 14, 2017 0 The Man Who Liked Himself So Much, He Went to Jail Only about 80,000 people live in the Cascade County, Montana, but with a total area of 2,711 square [...]
August 11, 2017 0 The Weekender, August 11, 2017 1) “The Real Butlers of the .001 Percent” (GQ, 16 minutes, May 2014). Thanks to reader Matt H. [...]
August 9, 2017 0 A Penny (or 2,500) For Your Misdeeds A penny is worth one cent, which is to say it’s basically worthless, but not entirely so. Gather enough [...]
August 8, 2017 0 The Never-Built Airport That Was Never Intended to be Used Anyway On November 4, 1968, a National Airlines flight from New Orleans en route to Miami was hijacked and diverted [...]
August 7, 2017 0 A Berry Loopy Lawsuit In 1963, the Quaker Oats Company introduced the world to Cap’n Crunch, a sugar cereal and its [...]