Category Archives: History

History at all levels, not just not my past or nostalgic musings.

Biden wasn’t the first POTUS with dementia

Posted on February 9, 2024 by Steve

The rather damning conclusion to the independent DOJ investigator for Grampa’ Brunch’s improper collecting/storing of classified documents backfired. Well, it really just solidified what everyone already knew, he’s too fucking old now let alone a second term. The same for … Continue reading →

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1994: 30 years in Austin begins today!

Posted on February 3, 2024 by Steve

The weather wasn’t terribly different than that day! Warmer than the Midwest normally is but overcast and rainy. Normally, no sun is depressing yet I was so stoked to be in Austin after taking in the main attraction of Dallas, … Continue reading →

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1994: Austin away! Day 1

Posted on February 1, 2024 by Steve

What a great day this was! I have to tell you, when you move from one city to another in the US, doing it by rental car is the best. You don’t have to sweat how lumbering, clumsy and bulky … Continue reading →

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1974: D&D released

Posted on January 28, 2024 by Steve

Now to cover the last picture in January’s set of anniversaries going down this 2024 since D&D is the biggie at 50 this year. Around this time, the first set of rules were published. TSR printed a thousand copies, full … Continue reading →

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1924: Vladimir Lenin dies

Posted on January 21, 2024 by Steve

As awful as he was, Lenin was like all humans…complicated. A couple things I will say in his defense: compared to Stalin, he was an amateur dictator and although many morons put him incorrectly in the company of Stalin, Hitler, … Continue reading →

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Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Posted on January 20, 2024 by Steve

Here’s to the book that derailed my 2023 resolution to read over 10 books in the year, it ended up being six. This heavily researched tome about Lincoln and a few of his cabinet members is pretty amazing. Too bad … Continue reading →

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1994: Alea iacta est, c’mon, roll “Austin!” – Austin 30 Part 1

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Steve

It was on this day, around this time, I said, I no longer could stand living in a place where having an education and having critical thinking skills…is a liability. As we obviously know now, Illinois is only superficially a … Continue reading →

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1994: Valeri Polyakov leaves for Mir

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Steve

Despite the Russians being demonized for their dictator’s invasion of Ukraine, we should not poo poo on its people’s pretty awesome accomplishments in moving the whole human race forward in Science nor Space Travel. On this day Dr. Polyakov went … Continue reading →

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The Last King of Scotland

Posted on January 3, 2024 by Steve

I’m glad before seeing this incredibly inaccurate movie I caught the podcast Real Dictators and a similar show on Netflix. All three sources were spot on about how fucking disastrous Idi Amin was. The movie’s major sins were: Messing with … Continue reading →

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Nimrata Haley shows her willingness get a D- in US History

Posted on December 28, 2023 by Steve

I wish I could’ve kept up the streak of no politics for the holiday break but the Republican circle jerk to defeat Orange Foolius and then Grampa’ Branch is too ripe not to mock. In an attempt to gain the … Continue reading →

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1988: Lockerbie bombing

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Steve

Thirty-five years ago, Libya blew up an international flight leaving London for NYC during the Gaddafi regime. To what end? Only the deceased de facto ruler of Libya could tell the victims’ families. I’m guessing it was to demonstrate how … Continue reading →

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Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

Posted on December 19, 2023 by Steve

An upside to the Internet’s obsession with porn! It made a serious movie like Skin possible and not a magnet for teen boys, 14-year-old me going, YESSSS! This is a documentary and it’s very academic about the topic. There’s still … Continue reading →

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Well…it’s still better than Denny’s

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Steve

If you don’t get the joke, it’s a reference to the infamous Donner Party. A group of people heading West during the wagon-train days but they didn’t get through a key mountain pass in time, ended up being snowed in … Continue reading →

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2008: al-Zaidi throws his shoes at Dubious Bush

Posted on December 14, 2023 by Steve

To me it was one of the funniest things I had seen on the news in years and I loved to see that inbred moron at the podium dodging the shoes being thrown at him. Sadly, Dubious still looked pretty … Continue reading →

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Rest in Hell Sandra O’Connor

Posted on December 3, 2023 by Steve

As far as I’m concerned she’ll be remembered for only two things. Being the first woman on the Supreme Court which is on the short list of good acts of St. Reagan’s reign of error. It only happened because the … Continue reading →

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