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Category Archives: History
The history of activism and protest in Minnesota
I have been hell on MPR and NPR in general. And I don’t apologize for that even in the slightest. They have knuckled under to MAGAts for no freaking reason. On their knees and STILL lost their federal funding. You think that would cause them to grow a spine, but no, not really.
That said, some reporters still do the work, even if they still give air time to awful people. So, with ALL those caveats in mind, I am gonna post some recent stories and forums hosted on MPR lately.
Here’s a bit of a history lesson on how things work up here.
Making School Cafeteria Pizza from the 1980s & ’90s
You can get the recipe(s) and others here.
Meet the man keeping hope, and 70-year-old pinball machines, alive
I appreciate just about anyone with the tools, experience, and interest in keeping old tech alive for future generations. The fact that this gentleman dabbles in pinball just makes it cooler.
This Man Made the First Canned Cranberry Sauce
A little food history related to cranberry sauce.
For reference, we do the canned stuff AND a homemade sauce here.
Archaeologists Find 1,900-Year-Old Snacks in Sewers Beneath the Colosseum
You can eat as the Romans did.
Just don’t ask where they found it.
Actually, it is a cool bit of detective work.
I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.
Historically there is no peaceful path out of this mess.
And *if* we get through this, can we PLEASE punish the evildoers like we never have in this country? Not the Civil War, or the Depression, or Jim Crow, or Watergate, Iran-Contra, the Iraq War. No one ever gets their due. And the nation continues to suffer more and more.
Texas Tries To Use ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ To Steal Space Shuttle Discovery From The Smithsonian
Of course Texas is still trying to steal from the rest of the nation using horrible legislation to do additional horrible things.
Mississippi Students No Longer Required to Pass U.S. History Assessment to Graduate
In a move that should surprise nobody, you do not have to know our nation’s history to get out of high school in Mississippi.
Yes, there is a place for jokes here, but the important thing to consider here is that, unlike Oklahoma outright lying about our history, or Louisiana mandating a Ten Commandments statue in the middle of a walkway, Mississippi just gave up and pocketed the money they’d have to spend.
Which, if not admirable, is as least fiscally conscious I guess?
Witness History: The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker
I am trying to directly download and link this story but here’s some background on the first rice cookers.