InVerse You Never Had It So Good Sign up for your food card. It really ain’t that hard. It lets you and your squeeze get that government cheese, and also some booze, and your baby's new shoes.
911 Of a Fire in a Field and a Hole in the Sky Then, from somewhere in the pile or the pit, a group of men would emerge carrying a stretcher covered with an American flag and holding, if they were fortunate, a body.
911 What I Saw: Notes Made on September 11, 2001 from Brooklyn Heights What follows is a slightly edited transcript of what I saw and how I felt on the 11th of September, 2001 from Brooklyn Heights in New York City. On that day I was posting to a West Coast Computer Conferencing system known as The Well.
HISTORY The Falling Hammer "A man was building what seems to be a foundation for some sort of expansion of the Highway Inn. It may have been a hot day and his hands were sweating. It may have been early morning with a vicious hangover following a long night of drinking. Or it may simply have been an accident."
HISTORY Long Read of the Week: The Fake History of the 20th Century Ordinary people in Cincinnati were tarred as hateful racists in order to further a specific narrative about America. They weren’t the only victims of myths related to Robinson. Enos Slaughter of the Cardinals has been villainized for slashing Robinson with spiked cleats at first base.
HISTORY BRAIN JAZZ: "Social Media" in 1989 We don't fill in a formula of departments and features and tips and quips every hour every day every week. We're jamming. We just make up our content on the fly. No going back. No edits. Working in raw ASCII. Keyboarding. Mainlining others' thoughts. Lock and Load. Fire and forget.