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“Oh if thou teach me to believe this sorrow,
Teach then this sorrow how to make me die.”
William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John
As someone living a short drive from Springfield, Ohio, I am feeling a great deal of “sorrow.” (more…)
The Haitian National Centre for Geospatial Information (CNIGS) is the closest thing Haiti has to a space program. Possessing no spacecraft launch facilities, satellites, or even telescopes, its sole purpose seems to be to collect satellite data that is donated to it by the French Space Agency which is then used to help Haitians to cope with the many disasters which strike their country. Compare this to NASA’s achievements and you’ll see why Haitians may be less capable than Ohioans at space exploration. (Image source: Recovery Observatory Haiti)
The Haitian National Centre for Geospatial Information (CNIGS) is the closest thing Haiti has to a space program. Possessing no spacecraft launch facilities, satellites, or even telescopes, its sole purpose seems to be to collect satellite data that is donated to it by the French Space Agency which is then used to help Haitians to cope with the many disasters which strike their country. Compare this to NASA’s achievements and you’ll see why Haitians may be less capable than Ohioans at space exploration. (Image source: Recovery Observatory Haiti)
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55 years ago, almost to the day, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the surface of the Moon. This event is not discussed nearly enough. As I see it, the Moon landing is one of the greatest achievements in the 300,000-year history of the human species. No earthly life form had ever traveled to another celestial body until three brave, white explorers completed their daring journey on July 20, 1969. That iconic date should be counted among the most glorious in the history of White America.
Not one of the great powers of past ages can claim to have sent the first man to the Moon. For myself and my fellow white Americans, that is an achievement that can be claimed by us and us alone. The moment Armstrong stepped onto the Moon’s surface, a new, uniquely American chapter was contributed to the epic, ongoing tale of the white race and its exploits. (more…)
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Although it often gets lost amid the subsequent media hysteria and toxic infighting that followed in the wake of August 2017’s hyper-ironically titled “Unite the Right” rally, the event’s initial intent was to prevent a massive bronze sculpture of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from being removed by the members of a largely white-hostile and seemingly illiterate city government in Charlottesville, Virginia. (more…)
Tatiana Atkins
Tatiana Atkins
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According to Chicago Police Department stats, last year yielded 695 homicides and 2,832 shootings in the Windy City. Assuming that not all of the homicides resulted from shootings and that there was at least a sprinkling of fatal stabbings, stranglings, and even punchings, it’s fair to conclude that with a homicide-to-shooting ratio of perhaps one in five or even lower, nearly all of the shootings involved black gunmen. (more…)
Robert Louis Singletary
Robert Louis Singletary
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Since it is now standard journalistic practice to refer to rampaging black criminals as “teens,” a recent story from North Carolina requires me to refer to a 24-year-old black male accused of attempted murder as a “post-teenaged man.”
Last week’s news cycle was dominated by the saga of a black teen who was shot by an 84-year-old white man after ringing the wrong doorbell. (more…)
Justin Pearson in 2016 (left) and now.
Justin Pearson in 2016 (left) and now.
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Although it seems like a thousand years ago, it was only in late March when a female-to-male aspiring transsexual blasted her way into a Christian school in Nashville and shot a half-dozen people dead.
East Palestine, Ohio on the night of February 3.
East Palestine, Ohio on the night of February 3.
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We are all East Palestinians now.
As always, it will take months and years and decades and possibly centuries to sift the hype from the facts about what happened in this remote little nearly all-white town in eastern Ohio that sits only 21 miles from the rotted-out deindustrialized city of Youngstown, Ohio and a mere 52 miles from the rotted-out deindustrialized city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (more…)
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A train carrying vinyl chloride, a toxic chemical used to make plastic pipes, cable coating, and packaging, derailed in East Palestine, Ohio on February 3, spilling five tankers full of the substance. Emergency crews burned the remaining contents to prevent an explosion, prompting an evacuation of over 2,000 residents. (more…)
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We have no idea what the final outcome of the US midterm elections will be, with several crucial races having yet to be called, and nobody is promising anything until next week — and even then, the Chairman of Arizona’s Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is saying, “Don’t hold me to it.” (That’s code for “Ignore this shady stuff and please don’t do another January 6, okay?”)
In the meantime, let’s take a look at four of the most interesting Republican candidates and one who flopped. (more…)