. On January 10, 2026, people from Alford, Massachusetts and surrounding hamlets, villages and towns gathered at a point where 250 years ago, in the middle of winter, an extraordinary military cavalcade of horse-drawn sleds carrying 51 cannons and two howitzers passed on their way from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston. This was Henry Knox’ … Continue reading
. We had thought colonial grabbing of land was a way of the past. It has been discounted and disparaged and condemned many times in the past 100 years. Museums all over the Western world now feel compelled to return artifacts of cultural heritage to the peoples they have been plundered from. In the past … Continue reading
. A celebration is in order Μελίνα Ασλανίδου Νικομανώλης Νύκταρης τραγουδώ Ανώγεια Ντελίνα 02-10-2020 The 100,000th page view was reached between Dec 11th and 12th My fiction and blog webpage https://www.franxfiction.com with all of its subpages was created by Melissa Thomas-Baum in 2012. Today it draws visitors from Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cech Republic, China, … Continue reading
WINTER WALK ON THEME OF THE RAINBOW This time it’s the theme of colors Winter is the time when primary colors are sparse but each item jumps out at you, especially when the first serious snow falls. Which is tomorrow I’m ordering the impulse pictures following the rainbow It’s still OK to use the … Continue reading
Image created by chatGPT in response to the prompt “Frankenstein at his desk reviewing a book” I recently re-issued my first novel, AAN ZEE, under the new title HOTEL AAN ZEE AND THE TURBULENT FORCES OF LOVE. I first asked Google chatGPT to review my book, then asked chatGPT how Frankenstein might review it. Unexpectedly … Continue reading
Ubu Roi — wood cut by Alfred Jarry King Ubu is a figure conjured by the French artist Alfred Jarry, who led the way to the DADA movement, just before the turn of the 19th to 20th century. In Ubu, the illusion of grandeur was taken to the … Continue reading
Alexander von Humboldt (1769 – 1859) — Getty images . The American Association of University Professors, which I joined a couple of months ago through its Columbia chapter, invited me to be on a panel for a two-hour event entitled “Our Transformed University: Academic Freedom and Shared Governance” on Sep 19, 2025 at Jerome Greene … Continue reading
Department of War Department of Propaganda and Coverup Department of Military Parades Department of Home Invasion Department of Menace and Mendacity Department of Revenge Department of Slander Department of Cruelty Department of Bribery and Extortion Department for the Elimination of Competence Department of Refined Pedophilia Department of Gender Police Department of Ovum and Fetus Personality … Continue reading
Image Credit and Additional Information “The Trump administration has asked NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellite missions, according to current and former NASA staffers. If the plans are carried out, one of the missions would be permanently terminated, because the satellite would burn up in the atmosphere. The … Continue reading
. here compliance is taken for granted by the premature THANK YOU here compliance is taken for granted by the premature THANK YOU this one doesn’t belong into the series of VERBOTEN but in a way it epitomizes the desperate state after a verdict of fate discarded threat has been effective, there is no bicycle … Continue reading
. There are lots of things wrong with the present giddiness about AI. Here I’m just focusing on one. The investment of half a trillion $$$ into fostering AI while slashing science funding by a similar amount reminds me of the year 1905. Why 1905? Not that there was a similar colossal fool in charge … Continue reading
. Vincenzo Fiore, a professor of computational psychiatry based in New York, contacted my today, asking me to sign a letter on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of a letter signed by antifascist intellectuals after Mussolini declared himself dictator. “With the help of many colleagues and activists, we are launching a new initiative to … Continue reading
. I did my duty as reviewer on an NIH study section for four years – three times per year – for a total of twelve trips to DC, in the 1990s. I still have the plaque acknowledging my service. It was still the time of crawling internet speed, so the up to 80 proposals … Continue reading
. BlueSky on May 1, 2025: @whitneyyoh.bsky.social: Dems submitted an amendment to the budget bill. The amendment says “no taxpayer money can be used to deport US citizens.” Republicans voted AGAINST adding the amendment to the budget bill. In short Republicans are ok with tax dollars being used to deport US Citizens. @jenphi.bsky.social: Deport? If … Continue reading
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more April 11, 2025 HEATHER COX RICHARDSON APR 12 READ IN APP On April 4, Trump fired head of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and director of the National Security Agency (NSA) General Timothy Haugh, apparently on the recommendation of right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, who is pitching her new … Continue reading
. I was in the back of a car when I searched the internet and tried to write this down in my notebook. The resulut is readablede, I thonk. This is what it says: “A lode is a deposit of metalliferous ore that fills or is embedded in a fracture or crack in a rock … Continue reading
. YOUR HEALTH IS IN THE HANDS OF THREE QUACKS: Robert F. Kennedy, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services 15 years of heroin addiction. Does not believe in vaccinations for the general population although his own family has been vaccinated. Has admitted to dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park, which … Continue reading
. I’m reading a book by Tom Shachtman, a filmmaker, educator, and author of 40 books on a wide range of deeply researched topics, from cold temperatures to the history of the United States. The title of the book I’m reading is GENTLEMEN SCIENTISTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES — The Founding Fathers in the Age of Enlightenment … Continue reading
