Yellow Journalism
Thursday, July 21, 2011
I don't know anything about the blog "SwashZone", but they wrote a great, well-documented piece about yellow journalism both past and present.
Check it out.
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Question of the Day
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Here's a question for you history and political geeks to discuss.
Do you think the United States, in its present form of 50 States, will still exist in 100 years?
160,000 Years of Walking
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
On another site I frequent, a poster provided a link to a site that provides an interactive map of the migration of...us (homo sapiens)!
From the Bradshaw Foundation, compliments of Stephen Oppenheimer (author of Out of Eden and The Real Eve), here's the interactive Journey of Mankind.
To just hit the play button at each step will take you about 3 minutes to spin through the map. To click each "stop" on the map and play some of the extras will take more time but is totally worth it.
I found it enlightening to see the effect climate had on the early human population and how close to extinction we came on at least three different occasions. But we're crafty little bastards, and here we are today; out of savannas and steppes and into climate-controlled offices!
Houston. Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Monday, July 20, 2009
July 20, 1969
44.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
It's Official. Congratulations and good luck Mr. President. Consider this an open thread for your thoughts and reactions.
Happy Birthday
Monday, November 10, 2008
November 10, 1775, in Tun Tavern located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States Marine Corps was created.
The way they told it to us, they wanted a group of the roughest, most psychotic warriors they could find. So, a bar fight was started. Those left standing were enlisted in the Marine Corps.
I'm sure reality is a little different than that, but we all have our legends. It seems appropriate to argue that our history, that of the U.S.M.C., started with a bar fight.
**UPDATE**
A buddy juest sent me a USMC birthday card. Lots of shouting and warriors in camoflage. A surprising lack of stuff blowing up. But a great birthday card! Thanks...
Semper Fidelis.
Theodore Renatus
Monday, October 27, 2008
Two of the best biographies I have ever read** are authored by Sir Edmund Morris, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. His second book in his three-volume chronicle of Theodore Roosevelt is called Theodore Rex. Morris is a gifted writer whose genre of choice isn't always very exciting. 
Could be though that in this case, Morris' subject was...pretty damn exciting.
At any rate, Morris did a mock-interview in today's New York Times, asking modern questins but answering them with actual Roosevelt quotes. What you get are Morris' conjecture about how Roosevelt may actually have answered these questions, based on what Morris knows about Roosevelt's mindset (which again, after devoting the time it takes to write three biographies about the guy, should be a pretty good idea...).
Go check it out. It's at least funny, if not also insightful.
**Biographies tend to be pretty damn dull (see: David McCullough's "John Adams." Szzzznnnkkkkkzzz....), but these were well-written and almost story-like. It's a tactic that got Morrris in a little trouble with the Reagan estate.
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