In the richest country in the world, it has never been more urgent to provide decent and comfortable housing for all.Illustration by Jamiel Law.
It is now clear that the twin prescriptions of social isolation and shuttering large parts of the national economy have lowered the death toll of the novel…
Bob Dylan made his love for Little Richard known under his 1959 high school yearbook photo.
Maybe the most groundbreaking moment in Hibbing history aside from when the entire town was moved to make way for bigger mine pits, Bob famously imitated the “Tutti Frutti” hitmaker — with less than fruitious results — in his first-ever public performance for a talent show in the high school’s…
Life as Tempest. Little Richard has gone home to Jesus.Little Richard was a mercurial, immensely talented, oft troubled, soul who brought to pop music a presence that will never be duplicated or ever forgotten.His life was Tempest.Torn Tempest.Born to, for most of us today, simply unimaginable poverty, he became a rich musical giant at a very early age.Torn between his life-long love of…
Never think:“I’m on top of the world and that won’t ever change.”Never, never, never, never.Think that.Here, Hollywood’s then freshly-minted “Girl Next Door” Susan Peters in 1943.Discovered by Hollywood at 18, paralyzed at 24 in a hunting accident, and dead by 31 due to pneumonia.
Susan Peters (1921 – 1952 )
Susan Peters: born Suzanne Carnahan 3 July 1921, Spokane Washington; died:…
James Earl Carter was not a good President and was a, personally mean man to his subordinates, which is ungentlemanly, but today he speaks out against abortion in America
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The ONLY issue of true moral salience
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And the sine qua non of a righteous society:
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Jimmy Carter: Democrats Should Abandon Pro-Abortion PositionNATIONAL STEVEN ERTELT MAR 29, 2012 | 3:43PM WASHINGTON,…
Mr Trump’s former home in Greenwich, Connecticut~~a place where I am barely white enough to live.********I both thank and congratulate Mr. Evan Osnos and his employer, The New Yorker Magazine for this, compelling, examination of how the notion that lower class whites are the base of Mr Trump’s support and that the rich cream shoe class, very much dislikes Mr Trump. As that which…
Photos of Kent State Riot 4 May, 1970.******************** All which follows is the, very good, work of Jill Lapore, below directly in photo and bio, from her work on the war and race riots 50 years ago, in response to her own question: Did These Wars Ever End?” A question, I think that is res ipsa loquitur.I thank Jill Lepore very much for her much needed work here and,…
A Prince thou aren’tIt’s just such a drag to be another regular bum on the streets:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~***Text and Photo that follows all rights due and reserved to Vanity Fair Magazine;****IN THE NAME OF GOD.AMEN
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I wear the chain I forged in life.