The blog will not have an article this week, but information on the new YouTube channel.
In learning to convert audio to video, I’m keeping the posts short so that I can learn more through volume.
Li-Young Lee allowed me to read and post pieces of his. I have also Continue reading
A former concern about marijuana in the US was that it made Mexican beet workers think they were matadors. “All Mexicans are crazy” it was said, and this was the stuff that made them that way. But it was not just our southern neighbors we had to worry about. “Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers” were also offenders.
And do not get these guys started on what happens when white women smoke it!
Because Continue reading
March 4, 1925: Inauguration Day
The day began with a parade and ended a fiasco. The new Senate Majority Leader Continue reading
South Dakota governor, Kristi Noem, was banned from most tribal lands in her state after she made inflammatory statements about the tribes living there. A week later, she doubled down and the rest of the tribes joined in.
How can a state executive be banned from land in her own state? In this case, it’s because Continue reading
Imposter scams involve social engineering to help you trust that the person you are talking to is reputable. People do this to part you from your money or information.
In this article we will discuss 3 scams in 3 different centuries, and how they went down.
Gregor McGregor’s biggest red flag might have been Continue reading
The year was 1893. Grover Cleveland, the first Democrat elected President after the Civil War, was back in office, and the world was going to heck.
Hundreds of banks were folding, thousands of businesses shut down, and millions of households had no providers. Among the causes was a depletion of gold from the national reserves. Another were years of falling crop prices, leading to Continue reading
Elizabeth Cotten was a blues and folk singer/guitarist born in Chapel Hill, NC in 1893.
During her teens, she wrote a song called “Freight Train,” which was then recorded on vinyl in 1956. It was covered over a dozen times by The Grateful Dead, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and many more. Later, it was stolen via copyright by a British songwriter, but was eventually returned due to pressure within the music community. Continue reading
FI/RE (pronounced like the word fire) stands for Financially Independent, Retiring Early. Among the sub-cultures of this movement is a group called the Mustachians due to their fandom of Peter Adeney, creator of Mr. Money Mustache.
Among the influences that led to Adeney wanting everyone to build their “stache” so they could live on their own terms was Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau talked and wrote a great deal on the value and virtue of frugal living.
We will dive into his ideas by exploring 3 of his works.
The US Civil War bolstered the need for efficient mail delivery. In 1861, one could write “soldier’s letter” on an envelope and the recipient would pay the postage. In 1863, Congress passed legislation that mail delivery in cities could be free! To reliably send funds from a battlefield to home, a money order system was established in 1864.
With such a reliable way to transmit money, fraud went from coast-to-coast.
Fraud is the intentional deception of another for some type of gain. Mail fraud adds the element of using the post office. The improved postal system during the Civil War created a phenomenal opportunity for con artists for the following reasons:
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