Weirdness: January 2017

In which Catholic and Anglican missionaries went to war with each other to see who got to 'enlighten' Ugandan natives. I believe this saw the first use of modern machine guns by whites against other whites.

http://www.monitor.co.ug/SpecialReports/ugandaat50/1370466-1371198-14da9yl/index.html

More on Russian Cheeto

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/trump-aides-cant-stop-blabbing-about-how-hes-a-madman.html

Tee hee!

The latest edition of Tom Tomorrow

https://thenib.com/broken-news

A nice article about Phil Ochs and why he is needed now more than ever

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/24/why-phil-ochs-is-the-obscure-60s-folk-singer-america-needs-in-2017/?utm_term=.2d836fe8e77c

Fascinating that this should appear in the Post, it's almost liberal! (Which the Post is not, despite the reactionary propaganda you always get.)

Russian Cheeto

http://www.gq.com/story/trump-national-day-of-patriotic-devotion

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/01/24/the-true-correct-story-of-what-happened-at-donald-trumps-inauguration/?utm_term=.9dfabe204631

Throwing an election reaps nice rewards

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/us/politics/trump-comey-fbi-director-.html?emc=edit_na_20170124&nl=breaking-news&nlid=13038199&ref=headline&_r=0

There'll be a little something extra in your pay envelope, Jimbo.

Hellboy 3 film looks like it's starting up

https://moviepilot.com/p/guillermo-del-toro-moves-forward-with-hellboy-3/4193014?utm_source=fb-channel-superheroes&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=hellboy-3-moves-forward-guillermo-del-toro-to-meet-with-ron-perlman

Happy Birthday Ray Stevens!

https://raystevens.com/

Happy Birthday Klaus Nomi!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Nomi

Happy Birthday John Belushi!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000004/

Happy Birthday Warren Zevon!

http://www.warrenzevon.com/

Happy Birthday Benjamin Lincoln!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Lincoln

A Patriot.

Happy Birthday Neil Diamond!

http://www.neildiamond.com/

Happy Birthday Stephanie Romanov!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0739013/

Happy National Beer Can Appreciation Day!

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/beer-can-appreciation-day/
http://www.rustycans.com/HISTORY/oldfroth.html

Happy Eskimo Pie Patent Day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_Pie

Happy Paul Pitcher Day!

https://traditionalcustomsandceremonies.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/custom-demised-paul-pitcher-day/

GOP Science!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/smoking-doesnt-kill-and-other-great-old-op-eds-from-mike-pen?utm_term=.xuWxg9Jp#.bunZLgRY

Religion!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/01/23/father-son-duo-accused-of-rape-wants-only-law-book-that-truly-matters-at-trial-the-bible/?utm_term=.8fc809801519&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

Happy Birthday Dean Anderson!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000760/

Happy Birthday Danny Federici!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Federici

Happy Birthday Joseph Hewes!

A Patriot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hewes

Happy National Pie Day!

Yum!

http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017018-shoofly-pie

National Handwriting Day!

http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-handwriting-day-january-23/

Happy National Reading Day!

http://national-reading-day.org/

Russian Cheeto

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/bill-maher-heroin-a-gateway-to-being-a-republican-w462306

The story of "The Crypts" of Pohick

http://wikimapia.org/21649903/Remey-Mausoleum-Remeum

This was a BIG 'legend tripping' destination in NoVa, back in the day.

The story about nazi German's submarine missiles

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/nazi-germanys-secret-world-war-ii-plan-attack-america-18833

WWII era junk left in Greenland

http://www.businessinsider.com/eerie-photos-of-wwii-junk-in-greenland-2016-12/#going-down-the-fjord-on-a-sunny-day-he-said-if-the-sun-is-hitting-these-barrels-it-kind-of-looks-like-flowers-from-a-distance-1

The Sino-Japanese War is redefined

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/13/china-rewrites-history-books-to-extend-sino-japanese-war-by-six-years
Actually, I neither find this sinister, nor unrealistic, nor particularly original. This has been a long-held belief among more than one American military historian for many years. I happen to agree with it myself. Why the province of Manchuria should be regarded as being in another space/time makes no sense to me.

Women Spies of WWII

http://militaryhistorynow.com/2017/01/09/she-spies-six-amazing-female-agents-who-helped-win-ww2/

There is some fascinating material here, both for books and film.

Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in 1905

https://www.britannica.com/event/Bloody-Sunday-Russia-1905

Happy Birthday Linda Blair!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000304/

Happy Birthday Sam Cooke!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke

Happy Birthday Antonio Gramsci!

https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/intro.htm

Happy Birthday Robert E. Howard!

http://www.rehfoundation.org/a-short-biography/

The new world....

Some reference points for the future:

http://progressive.org/

http://inthesetimes.com/

https://www.thenation.com/

http://www.motherjones.com/

https://newleftreview.org/

https://monthlyreview.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/us

http://socialistparty-usa.net/

http://www.iww.org/

http://www.iwa-ait.org/languages/english

http://www.cnpsconference.org/

https://www.currentaffairs.org/

https://www.marxists.org/

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index

http://www.anarchism.net/www.htm

http://infoshop.org/

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/archivehome.html

http://www.autonomedia.org/

https://www.akpress.org/

https://workersolidarity.org/

https://www.aclu.org/

https://www.nlg.org/

https://www.aimovement.org/

http://now.org/

http://www.offourbacks.org/

http://www.foe.org/

http://bordc.org/
http://leftaction.com/

http://www.nfoic.org/

Happy Birthday Alferd Packer!

http://www.museumtrail.org/alferd-packer.html

Happy Birthday Wolfman Jack!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfman_Jack

Happy Birthday Edwin Starr!

http://www.edwinstarr.info/

Happy Birthday Richie Havens!

http://www.richiehavens.com/official_site/home.html

Happy Birthday Roger Baldwin!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Nash_Baldwin

Happy Birthday Ethan Allen!

http://www.biography.com/people/ethan-allen-9181414#synopsis

Happy National Hugging Day!

http://nationalhuggingday.com/

Happy National New England Clam Chowder Day!

Yum!

https://foursquare.com/top-places/portland-maine/best-places-chowder

Anniversary of the release of Meet The Beatles in 1964

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Beatles!

Happy Birthday Arte Johnson!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424527/

Happy Birthday Leadbelly!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Belly

Happy Birthday Robert Morris!

A Patriot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(financier)

Happy Birthday DeForest Kelley!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001420/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Happy Birthday George Burns!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122675/

Beginning of month of Pluviose in French revolutionary calendar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluvi%C3%B4se

Anniversary of the publishing of Paine's 'The Crisis' pamphlet

In 1776.

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/before-1800/thomas-paines-the-crisis-number-one-1776-richard-destefano.php

Anniversary of the Fincastle Resolutions

In 1775, another stop towards the Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fincastle_Resolutions

Happy National Cheese Lovers Day!

Yum!

http://cheesetique.com/

My next favorite TV show

http://www.eater.com/2011/4/8/6687697/anthony-bourdains-komrads-featuring-zamir-and-nari

Zamir & Nari!!!

CIA files on UFO's and Project Stargate to become more available to public

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38663522?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

(Thanks for the link, Moana!)

Anniversary of the Battle of Golden Hill in 1770

"First Blood" of the American Revolution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Golden_Hill

Happy Birthday Richard Lester!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504513/

Happy Birthday Dewey Bunnell !

http://www.venturahighway.com/

Happy Birthday Phil Everly!

http://www.everly.net/

Happy National Popcorn Day!

Yum!

http://whirleypopshop.com/

Happy Birthday Janis Joplin!

http://www.janisjoplin.com/

Happy Birthday Lysander Spooner!

http://www.lysanderspooner.org/

Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe!

https://www.poemuseum.org/
http://www.eapoe.org/

The Stanic Feminists of Bohemian Paris

http://www.dirgemag.com/flowers-evil-satanic-feminists-bohemian-paris-part-1-berthe-de-courriere/

Fascinating little history.

Spend the night with Bruce Campbell in a haunted house!

http://www.insidethemagic.net/2017/01/spend-the-night-with-bruce-campbell-in-a-haunted-mansion-casting-now-for-new-horror-reality-series/

Fun stuff!

Happy Birthday David Ruffin!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ruffin

Happy Birthday Cary Grant!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000026/

Happy Birthday Robert Anton Wilson!

http://rawilson.com/

Happy Thesaurus Day!

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/thesaurus-day/

Happy National Peking Duck Day!

Yum!

https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/the-ultimate-guide-to-making-crispy-amber-hued-peking-duck-at-home

Happy Pooh Day!

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/winnie-the-pooh-day/

Interesting article about the obsolescence with computerized appliances

http://www.zdnet.com/article/if-vendors-cannot-keep-a-phone-updated-why-trust-them-with-your-household-items/?loc=newsletter_small_thumb&ftag=TRE17cfd61&bhid=19993324377668975004593194010397

Happy Birthday Hugh Mercer!

A Patriot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Mercer

Happy Birthday Jim Carrey!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000120/

Happy National Hot Buttered Rum Day!

Yum!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/hot-buttered-rum-cocktail-recipe.html

Happy Birthday Benjamin Franklin!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

Happy Kid Inventors Day!

http://www.kidinventorsday.com/

Bioluminescence and the Cold war

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-the-navy-tried-to-turn-bioluminescence-against-the-soviets?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d05d565ff8-Newsletter_1_16_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-d05d565ff8-64536349&ct=t(Newsletter_1_16_2017)&mc_cid=d05d565ff8&mc_eid=9337bd4ceb

Russian Spy, Assassin, Defector, Parapsychologist

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nikolai-khokhlov-kgb-paranormal?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d05d565ff8-Newsletter_1_16_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-d05d565ff8-64536349&ct=t(Newsletter_1_16_2017)&mc_cid=d05d565ff8&mc_eid=9337bd4ceb

Fascinating life

Today is Blue Monday

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(date)

Happy Birthday Shadow Chasers!

Premiered on this date in 1986.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088606/

Happy Birthday Eleanor Marx!

https://www.marxists.org/archive/eleanor-marx/

Happy Birthday John Carpenter!

http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/

Happy Appreciate A Dragon Day!

http://www.donitakpaul.com/fun/aadd/

Happy National Fig Newton Day!

Yum!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtons_(pastry)

Happy International Hot & Spicy Food Day!

Yum!

https://www.thewrath.com/

Happy Religious Freedom Day!

http://www.religiousfreedomday.com/

Happy Book Publishers Day!

http://bookmarket.com/bookdays.htm

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Day

NecronomiCon coming in August!

http://necronomicon-providence.com/passes-and-tickets/

Happy Birthday Vanishing Point!

Premiered on this date in 1971.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067927/

Happy Birthday Pierre-Joseph Proudhon!

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/pierre-joseph-proudhon

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/proudhon/proudhonbio.html

Happy Birthday Chuck Berry!

http://chuckberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/index.html

Happy Birthday Martin Luther King, Jr.!

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

Happy National Strawberry Ice Cream Day!

Yum!

http://www.hopkinsfarmcreamery.com/index.cfm?ref=10100

Happy Birthday Murray Bookchin!

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bookchin/bio1.html

Happy Birthday William Whipple!

A Patriot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whipple

Happy Mallard Day!

All Souls College in Oxford celebrates the discovery of a large mallard found in a drain while digging the foundations of the college in 1437.

Happy Ratification Day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratification_Day_(United_States)

Rube Goldberg Meets Pool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EQBgttU9mo&sns=em

Fun stuff!

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Uber for funerals!

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38611790

(Thanks for the link, John!)

Flight 666 to Hel on Friday the 13th

What could go wrong?

http://gizmodo.com/hail-satan-flight-666-lands-safely-in-hel-1791159970

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Happy Birthday Jinx Dawson!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coven_(band)

Happy Birthday Clark Ashton Smith!

http://www.eldritchdark.com/

Happy Make Your Dreams Come True Day!

https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/fun/make-your-dreams-come-true-day

Hieronymus Bosch Figurines!

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/collectable_hieronymus_bosch_figurines

Happy Birthday Hullabaloo !

Premiered on this date in 1965.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167612/

Happy Birthday John Hancock!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock

Happy National Curried Chicken Day!

Yum!

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/37651/west-indian-curried-chicken/

Happy Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day!

http://www.holidayinsights.com/other/wildmen.htm

A ncie article on 3D Chess

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/space-chess-is-here-but-no-one-is-playing?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page

nazi boots at Amazon.com - and the reviews

http://cheezburger.com/1351429/redditors-find-out-boots-leave-swastikas-in-footprints-and-take-over-amazon-listing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+failblog+%28The+FAIL+Blog+-+Fail+Pictures+%26+Videos+at+Failblog.ORG%29

(Thanks for the link, Mathew!)

Happy Birthday George Zucco!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0958345/

Happy Birthday Alice Paul!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Paul

Happy Birthday Marc Blucas!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0089456/

Happy Birthday Clarence Clemons!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Clemons

Happy Birthday Alexander Hamilton!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton

Happy Burning the Clavie Day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_the_Clavie

Happy National Hot Toddy Day!

Yum!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_toddy

The strongest material on earth?

https://futurism.com/mit-unveils-new-material-thats-strongest-and-lightest-on-earth/

I confess to being surprised that this work wasn't classified. One would think that some of the first and greatest applications would be in aerospace development with the military first in line.

Save The Eagles Day

http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/save-the-eagles-day-january-10/

Happy National Oysters Rockefeller Day!

Yum!

Happy Birthday Metropolis!

Premiered on this date in 1927.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/

Happy Birthday Francisco Ferrer!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ferrer_Guardia

Anniversary of the publishing of Common Sense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet)

Happy Birthday John Cadwalader!

A Patriot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cadwalader_(general)

Happy Birthday Pat Benatar!

http://www.benatargiraldo.com/

Happy Birthday Rod Stewart!

http://www.rodstewart.com/

Happy Birthday Jim Croce!

http://jimcroce.com/

Happy Peculiar People Day!

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/peculiar-people-day/

Anti-fascist reading list

https://antifascistnews.net/2016/12/27/the-complete-anti-fascist-reading-list/

Learn about them now, aa you're going to experience them later.

Happy Birthday David Johansen!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Johansen

Happy Birthday Lee Van Cleef!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001812/

Happy Birthday Bob Denver!

http://www.bobdenver.com/

Happy Birthday Jimmy Page!

http://www.jimmypage.com/

Happy Birthday to The Progressive!

Founded on this date in 1909.

http://www.progressive.org/

Happy Birthday Carrie Chapman Catt!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Chapman_Catt

Happy Birthday Joan Baez!

http://www.joanbaez.com/

Happy Birthday Gypsy Rose Lee!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_Rose_Lee

Happy National Static Electricity Day!

http://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-static-electricity-day-january-9/

Happy National Apricot Day!

Yum!

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=3

Happy Plough Monday!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plough_Monday

Anniversary of the Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811

https://zinnedproject.org/2014/01/louisianas-heroic-1811-slave-revolt/

Yugoslavian Computer Mag Babes

https://www.midnightpulp.com/1980s-90s-computer-babes/

(Thanks for the link, Carl!)

Happy Birthday Amber Benson!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0072435/

Happy Birthday Michelle Forbes!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000405/

Happy Birthday Roy Kinnear!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0455702/

Happy Birthday Graham Chapman!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001037/

Happy Birthday Elvis!

http://www.elvis.com/

Happy Birthday Robby Krieger!

http://robbykrieger.com/

Happy Birthday David Bowie!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie

Happy Birthday Little Anthony!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Anthony_and_the_Imperials

Happy Birthday S.L.MacGregor Mathers!

http://www.golden-dawn.org/biomathers.html

Happy Bubble Bath day!

https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/bubble-bath-day/

Rogue Librarians

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/librarian-rebellion-chuck-finley_us_586ff320e4b02b5f8588c1b6

Bravo! It has been obvious for some time that the county that I live in is out to destroy and abandon its library system, despite being one of the wealthiest counties in the nation. Authorities hate books.