en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L.... A wild story. Come for the man born into slavery , stay for the Presidential elector turned diplomat for Benjamin Harrison turned political prisoner of the Third Republic turned Spanish-American War infantry captain.

I like the show quite a bit more than James does but I don't really disagree with his takes either. The recurring problem of 21st century 10-episode television (especially IP stuff) I think comes down to writing.

Milton Wright January 8, 1857 I stopped at Rev. Lilas Andrews, on my way to John Morgan's. It was talked that S.M. Shumway's followers included George McReady's and Charles Andrews'. I pr. Rom. 3.10. #wrightposting

Kristi Noem is a stone-cold liar who has zero credibility. There is nothing to suggest the shooting of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis was justified. This heinous killing must be criminally investigated to the full extent of the law.

www.imayberry.com/cgi-bin/chap... an interesting resource for #andygriffith content

having recently done a short thread on the man who usually appears last in listings of US Congressmen, why not the first? consider if you will this charming lefse - Fred G. Aandahl (1897-1966), Governor and later Congressman from the great state of North Dakota.

something poetic in how Pitcairn Island is the closest human settlement to Dante's location for Purgatory (i.e., the antipode of Jerusalem).

finished reading the British Library's reprint of the 1927 book POSSESSED - I love it! It's so much of its time.

Milton Wright, January 7, 1857 I staid at home. Emanuel Wagoner dined with us. I prepared two discourses. (Some notes are too dim to record). (If you feel your eyes are better than Bishop Wright's were in 1900, the original 1857 entry is included below.) #wrightposting

TNG really had a good ending

every country's food is fine. there are some dishes some countries do better than others but that is mostly because of who lives there.

the secret machinations of the lodges were very real and could KILL YOU.[1] [1] for certain values thereof.

Cassidy is a man who understands what virtue is but picked vice instead. this IMO puts you down closer to the place where the ice is especially cold.

Ed Zschau, born on this date in 1940, appears dead last in many lists of American Congressmen. Not for any bad reasons but because his name is Zschau. (Edwin Van Wyck Zschau.) He is one of the few men in American politics who can be said to have defeated both Eldridge Cleaver and Art Laffer.

For January 6, I promised #wrightposting fans something never before seen in the journals of Milton Wright. Milton Wright's January 6, 1857 was _not included_ in his transcription of his journals in 1900 - however, an entry does exist in the original 1857 diary. now, the mystery. #wrightposting

you know what, I want to see us start with somebody doing their best Peter Ustinov impression. "soooo! you think you've heard the real story, eh?"

I hope fans of #wrightposting will “follow the legend” and stay tuned for the further adventures of Milton Wright in antebellum Indiana.

reading NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID, struck by how Knebel shows the near-future setting by having the main character (a US Senator) be a Vietnam veteran - not bad for a book published in 1965!

Milton Wright January 5, 1857 I came home by Cramer's & Blakes & dined at Pike's. I went to Fayetteville--called at John Wagner's. #wrightposting

Milton Wright January 4, 1857 I pr. at Garrison Creek at 11:00; John 3.7; at Colombia, at 3:00, Rom. 8.31. Went to Mr. Eddy's. They tell of John Null's show & of his collecting his fathers accounts! #wrightposting

my group discovered the ghosts on the Moon and killed the flat-earther holding the Wright Brothers hostage #GMing

I usually only have a half-dozen tabs open or less. right now there's four.

of possible interest

Milton Wright January 3, 1857 I arose at 7:30. It is cold. I dine at Epenetus Smith's. He tells of the Campbelite social meeting! We talk of Shumay's course. I learn tht Timothy Ellison has broken up. I went home and wrote a composition on the New Birth. #wrightposting

reading Lucian's A TRUE STORY and reader I'm starting to think it isn't

Picked up smoked cheddar and beer cheese at a Wisconsin cheese, cooperative, made very good quesadilla today.

well two days into the new year and I've met my writing goal both days, so if these trends continue, woo!

to add one I didn't say back in August - Marietta S. Shaginyan.

"we should not be like a dictatorship in another part of the world" is not the same thing as racism directed towards another part of the world.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_... come for the politician murdered by his mistress and mother of his children (in the wake of his former wife having them both jailed for adultery), stay for the lesbian stage actress and tech guru who was the first American woman to play Peter Pan.

www.findagrave.com/memorial/291... Lot going on here

(reading about a Republican Party official murdered by persons unknown in Mississippi in the 1920s) hey I bet I know what happened there. (further research) yeah.

hadn't done the math to realize that the deaths of Jonestown and the Moscone/Milk murders were less than two weeks apart. hard month for San Francisco.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taos_Re... A new one on me. Led to probably the highest-ranking American casualty of the so-called "Indian Wars" - though really you can read Charles Dent's death as being as much about the Mexican-American War as anything else.

politicalgraveyard.com has William Magear Tweed as the highest-ranking US elected official to die in jail, having been a Congressman in the 1850s. Is that right? I wonder if we can do better.

Milton Wright, January 2, 1857 I arose at 5:00. Home at 11:00. I went to the Crowel appointment and pr. I Cor. 10:31. Lodged at Crowel's. #wrightposting

The Fallout TV show never rises above fun popcorn stuff, but I love Aaron Moten playing a thick, inarticulate guy with anger issues.

bless you Trek writers but when your characters say "surplus to requirements" I can tell when you're from. nothing wrong with being from a place, mind! everybody is.

Milton Wright, January 1, 1857 I arose late. I drank water only & ate no meat. Anson Moor and his son Harvey called. I went to Hugh Wilson's and lodged there. I learn at the M.E. meeting at Fayetteville, there have been 13 accessions. It was a revival at which I preached once. #wrightposting

In 2025 I went on NPR, got published in one book, signed a contract for another, had multiple health crises of various sorts, had two major career bobbles end in a very pleasant state job, realized my son is going to be sixteen in eighteen days, and baked chocolate chip cookies. I'm still here.

fashionable

reading Rachel Ekstrom Courage's MURDER BY CHEESECAKE, struck by 80s Miami as a lovingly-detailed period setting.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christm... Not just Hallmark either! You could very plausibly do a queer-friendly update of this one.

interesting that adaptations of IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE have generally flinched from actually showing It Happening Here, which is why the most famous version involved mammal-eating reptiles from beyond the moon rather than American fascism.

here's a niche Trek subject - the v. high number of 23rd century historians who are RETVRN people in one way or another. John Gill, crypto-Nazi. Marla McGivers, who is a little _too_ excited about the brutal despots of Earth's past.

you see, the Devil's cleric asserts, the parts of the holy text that endorse virtue actually endorsed vice the whole time, you just didn't have eyes to see it.

while re-reading this: Hope Cooke, ... who later became Queen of Sikkim, commented..."all the parents want[ed] their daughters to dance with Arthur MacArthur, the general's son... when he comes to church with his parents, there is always a huge crowd on the steps to watch them go by."

I'd live just about anywhere that my family wanted to live and where I could get a good, secure job. But that's easy for me to say!

and it's over Morgan's murder? good, good.

a highlight of the Christmas trip involved Domino leaping on Callisto like Mario on a goomba, then fleeing for her life as Callisto thundered in pursuit.