Category Archives: History

The retirement of Lonnie Bunch and the potential end of the Smithsonian

Just notice I haven’t posted in month…a lot has been going on here.

For various reasons, we haven’t been home to watch Sunday Morning but today they squeaked in a positive interview of Lonnie Bunch as he prepares to retire.

The Rose Garden. The East Wing. The Kennedy Center. American Democracy. All have fallen.

Next will be the Smithsonian Institution with Mr. Buch at the helm.

This country is dead. If we split up, maybe one of the pieces will be worthy.

Here is the extended interview along with an earlier one.

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.

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.

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?