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Luxury Cars Continue to be Abandoned at Dubai Airport

You may recall an earlier post on people abandoning their cars at the airport as the left Dubai. Well, it’s still happening. It’s quite possible that history will show this as one of the greatest examples of the excess and delusion of the past decade.

Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns | World news | The Guardian

One more for the “Against” column of my “Should I have kids?” list. “We are fighting for our children’s education and our nation’s future,” Dunbar said. “In Texas we have certain statutory obligations to promote patriotism and to promote the free enterprise system. There seems to have been a move away from a patriotic ideology.Continue reading “Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns | World news | The Guardian”

AMERICAN HISTORY X’D – Correcting the Lies You’re Told – Vice Magazine

We started with Thomas, a public school student from New Mexico. What year did a man walk on the moon? Thomas: Oh, like the 1800s? Somewhere around there? FACT: Right you are! In 1845, NASA astronaut Lance Armstrong launched what was then called a “steam rocket” soaring into the atmosphere. The rocket was made ofContinue reading “AMERICAN HISTORY X’D – Correcting the Lies You’re Told – Vice Magazine”

Howard Zinn, R.I.P. :(

Historian Howard Zinn has died at age 87. Zinn was best known for A People’s History of the United States, which turned the glossy, textbook version of American history on its head by pointing out that far from being an unbroken chain of political and economic progress, our history was one of conflict along class,Continue reading “Howard Zinn, R.I.P. :(“

Vice Guide to Liberia

I feel bad for the people of Haiti, but Liberia has it pretty bad. If anything, the tinge of American ancestry makes it hit home a little harder. I think it is safe to say the even the most well-educated and concerned Americans are unaware of the conditions in Liberia; nor do I feel they’reContinue reading “Vice Guide to Liberia”