Unless he is a vampire, and currently over 800 years old.....

That’s because journalists are people.

Hint: it’s not facial hair.

How we got to 185 different visas.

A quick guide and refresher if you need it before Part IV

Part IV will be out next Monday and bring us up to the present

My family came through Ellis Island, they followed the rules!

1870-1920 (lots of legislation, but nothing particularly difficult from a LEGAL standpoint if you are European.)

Jet lag is taking more of a toll than anticipated.

Part I

We asked this guy when he swam up, but he says he hasn’t heard from Mitch McConnell in months. Also called him the black sheep of the family….

kinda....

Today we will being unpacking a comment found on a Threads post about asylum seekers.

A lot of people don’t remember what happened in Terminator 2 and it shows. Other films they could probably stand to watch: 2001:A Space Odyssey Jurassic Park War games & Goonies, just because.

Movie night brought to you by: America's generalized anxiety and culture of mistrust.

This game is making the rounds again: Doctors I will consult with before following the adivce of RFK Jr or the president’s executive order on vaccintion: Dr. Dre Dr. Pepper Doc Holliday Doc McStu...

I love this primary ad from Abdul el-Sayed! No notes. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SYleV9hC1zM

Today’s statement was from a person with a lot of thoughts that they shared in the comments on a video of the Fauci hearings on Facebook.

Well actually…

Two Truths and a Lie, Let’s start easy! William Howard Taft….. 1)Kept his own cow at the White House for fresh milk 2)Got stuck in a bath tub 3)Was the first president to throw the ceremonial fir...

Happy August 4, it is now SAFE for the GOP to announce if McConnell is actually dead or merely incapacitated and incapable of returning to work. But McConnell is not the first Senator whose seat was h...

The Founders and Deism

Seriously? Saturday, brought to you by our very own CIA. In the 1960s, people who have clearly never owned a cat, decided to try and use cats as spies. The idea was the cats could be surgically implan...

That time when a cartoon from 1894 is still incredibly relevant…. the new gilded age….

Turns out the Netherlands were always "too liberal" for some!

1893 World’s Fair, celebrating the arrival of Columbus, gave us America’s first official serial killer and America’s own version of Imperialism. Which they didn’t realize at the time, was incredibly o...

Today one of the most widely known murder ballads amongst people under 30 in the U.S. is “The Hanging Tree” from the Hunger Games. The murder ballad is a genre that originated in England, Lowland Scot...

Abstinence education was never effective birth control

When Rose Byrne won her Golden Globe and thanked Bobby Canavale for missing it to take their kids to the Reptile Expo for a bearded dragon, I totally understood. Meet our newest addition, a female red...

The Founders made our national motto “In God We Trust”! It was so important they even put it on our money!

Turns out the Netherlands were always "too liberal" for some!

The Founders made our national motto “In God We Trust”! It was so important they even put it on our money!

The first person to receive a ticket for speeding in a motor car was going 8 m.p.h. The first president to received a speeding ticket was Ulysses S. Grant who was driving a horse and buggy!