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Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForI'd love to change the rules to how I'd have it instantiated. Is that on the table? Because, lemme t…
on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForWould you have it otherwise?
on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForThat was part of it but I think it may have also been an early indicator of otherwise highly obscure…
on The Greatest Strike in HistoryThe Cobb case was a bit more like the Malice at the Palace, no?
on Martin Niemöller, and Who First They Came ForI’m still waiting on our resident free speech absolutists to weigh in on this one. Popcorn is all do…
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The Greatest Strike in History
March 30, 2025
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They’re Acting Queer in Cleveland
March 27, 2025
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A Loaf of Bread, a Container of Milk, and a Stick of Butter
March 26, 2025
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If I’m reading the date right, this would have been 6 years after Ford introduced the $5/day wage, so a million dollars back then would have been over 600 years of workman’s wages. At 5% interest, a million dollars would have yielded an income of $136 per day indefinitely.
Which is to say, it’s quite nice to have a million dollars now, but back then it would have made you fabulously wealthy. The Wikipedia says Briggs himself died leaving a $90,000 estate.Report
I didn’t know that about Briggs estate. The fight over it is the stuff of family legend.Report
I was confused by this until I looked up the post where you introduced him as your great-grandfather. Were your grandparents on the winning side, or the losing side?Report
I saw three robins about a week ago. Two days later, we got an inch and a half of snow! Now it’s 60 degrees.Report
Well, it’s a harbinger with imperfect reliability.Report
Colorado?Report