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"If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you." Today is my home state’s 175th birthday and she doesn’t look a day over 130. Interestingly enough, the founding of the state wasn’t without conflict: Neighboring Ohio attained statehood in 1803 and engaged in a running dispute with Michigan over ownership of land known as . . . → Read More: Happy 175th Birthday, Michigan! My gaming desktop at home has 8 Gigabytes of RAM. If I had to use these 4KB modules instead of the two 4 GB sticks I have in my system it would take 2,097,152 of them to do it. Hell, the SDHC memory card — a single card the size of a postage stamp — . . . → Read More: RAM: You’ve come a long way, baby! 
I watch and read a lot of non-fiction. The Discovery Channels are frequently tuned in on my TV because they have so many shows that I love to watch. The History Channel, though, not so much. Mainly because whenever I flip by it it seems like it’s either A) something World War II related most . . . → Read More: My latest TV addiction: “How The States Got Their Shapes.” 
Do you really want this guy setting your kid's educational standards? They say that reality has a Liberal bias which probably explains why the Far Right is always trying to change it through revisionist history. Down in Tennessee the leaders of the Tea Party met up with state legislators to present their “demands” on . . . → Read More: Tennessee Tea Partiers want to reject history and substitute their own.* You can learn a lot from your elders. Here’s a film clip from 1947 produced by the U.S. War Department that is stunningly apropos to today:
This is how I grew up viewing America. We are a nation of immigrants and minorities of one form or another. It’s what . . . → Read More: “Don’t Be A Sucker” film clip from 1947. The new Doctor Who series has been a smash hit not only in the U.K., but in many other countries including the U.S. and has a lot of new fans who have never seen the original series. Old school Who is admittedly an acquired taste due to its comparatively smaller (some would say non-existent) budget . . . → Read More: Love the new “Doctor Who”? Here’s how to fall in love with the original series. I have already written about this previously, but it takes on a new dimension when you actually see the man saying the words himself: The man sounds like Billy Graham on Valium. I’m at the point that I’m expecting him to start claiming that God wants him to be President. Found via ***Dave. . . . → Read More: Video of John McCain arguing America is a Christian nation. … is that it can make you look like an idiot when you try to protest for a good cause. Here’s a pic of a sign at a recent anti-China Olympics protest: The answer is: Yes, yes we would allow them to host the Olympics. In 1936 in fact. Crack a history book every now . . . → Read More: One of the problems with being historically ignorant… If you’ve spent any time traveling here and there on I-94 in Detroit then you’ve probably seen the Uniroyal Giant Tire at least once or twice. If not then you can click the image to the left for a larger version. Anyway, the Giant Tire was something that always fascinated me on the infrequent . . . → Read More: So that’s what the Uniroyal Giant Tire once looked like. It’s always fun to see what people 40 years ago thought life would be like in 2008: Homes in Mi’s 80th year are practically self-maintaining. Electrostatic precipitators clean the air and climatizers maintain the temperature and humidity at optimum levels. Robots are available to do housework and other simple chores. New materials for siding and . . . → Read More: It’s 2008. Where the fuck is my self-cleaning home? |
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