Dance of the snowflakes a drawing by oliver herford

NYU’s Michael Rectenwald’s Snowflake Moment

Prof. Rectenwald, formerly of New York University, where he had the Twitter nickname “The Deplorable Prof”  has hit the circuit in the past year discussing his  book, Springtime of Snowflakes, Social Justice and its Postmodern Parentage  a mad cap view of what’s going down in Academia these days.  His premise is universities have become  hot […]

1912, June 22nd Teddy Roosevelt goes rogue and creates the Bull Moose Party

Angry and full of revenge On the evening of June 22, 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt, commonly referred to as “TR” asked his supporters to leave the floor of the Republican National Convention and reconvene in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall to endorse the formation of a national progressive party. TR was angry the Republicans had not endorsed him for […]

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E. G Marshall, the mysterious one

Just E.G. He was from a Minnesota farming family and despite his riches never changed his Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labour Party affiliation — a socialist political organization formed after World War I. It was a populist progressive party complete with the desire of cradle to grave care including government ownership of important industries, total cradle to […]

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J326 Douglas Fairbanks – the original swashbuckler

Douglas Fairbanks sr was the original Hollywood swashbuckler in Mark of Zorro, thief of Baghadad and Robin Hood but his feats did not stop there, he was the founder of United Artists, that Michael Cimino ran into the ground with a stupendous budget overload with Heaven’s Gate, married Mary Pickford, America’s Sweetheart and considered the […]