The Many Oaths of Jean-Jacques Dessaline
I doubt anyone here knows of Jean-Jacques Dessaline. He was the first president of Haiti after the former slave-island had defeated the army of Napoleon …
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Tracing the Gentleman’s International League of Gutter Trash
I started this little investigation into gutter trashery with Joe Biden for Joe is pre-Baby Boomer, so comes from a generation who should have known the value …
America’s Gutter Trash Move into the Big Leagues
“Gutter Trash” is a term I heard all my life. It signified a person, most often a man (since women had their own names that you …
The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941
This is 1941, when Hollywood apparently still approved of God. “The Devil and Daniel Webster” is a short story written by Stephen Vincent Benet in 1936 for …