Jerry Brooks is initiating a class action suit against Emerald City Comicon. He alleges the convention broke Washington state employment laws. They used volunteers to do tasks normally performed by ... Continue Reading
Keith Morrison to be removed from the $20 bill
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced today that Keith Morrison, revered Dateline NBC correspondent, will be removed from the $20 bill. In his place, Harriet Tubman, a woman who has never appeared on ... Continue Reading
Wil Wheaton blames ‘Tabletop’ producer for errors
Former child actor Wil Wheaton hosts a YouTube show called Tabletop. The show features Wheaton and three or four guests playing a board game, the type of specialty board game one might buy at a ... Continue Reading
Memorial Day and why I hate communists
Today is Memorial Day, the one day a year we officially recognize the ultimate sacrifice many, too many, military men and women paid in service to our country. I spent over nine years in the United ... Continue Reading
Joseph Stalin’s Order Number 270
I've been listening to a really fantastic history podcast, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. The most recent episode is Ghosts of the Ostfront II. It is the second part of a show that deals with what the ... Continue Reading
The night an F-4G Wild Weasel fired a missile at a B-52G
This illustration depicts aircraft B-52G 0248. Although the image is too small to read clearly, the nose art shows the nickname "In Harms [sic] Way." Back in 1991, on the first night of Operation ... Continue Reading