KCDC 2025
You would have found me last week at the Kansas City Convention Center for my first KCDC, as an attendee and a speaker. This year's conference is their sixteenth edition…
Las Vegas Athletics, Uggh!
Last week I spoke at KCDC which uses the Kansas City Convention Center. The street-level hallways contain a history of Kansas City - heavy emphasis on a larger-than-life civic leader…
Polish Brand of Communism
In February 1977 Tomasz Strzyżewski, censor no C-36 of the Kraków Main Office for Control of Press, Publications and Public Performances, boarded the ferry to Sweden at Świnoujście, Poland, for…
When Name Recognition Is Not Good
The Netflix show Five Came Back: The Reference Films consists of twelve government-sponsored propaganda films. The first episode is Nazi Concentration Camps is about the well-known and appalling conditions the…
Give It A Rest!
Joe DiMaggio demanded he be introduced as The Greatest Living Ballplayer at all public appearances, such as Yankee Old-Timers' Day. Billy Crystal claims that DiMaggio punched him when Crystal did…
The Treaty of Versailles and Germany
The Treaty of Versailles held Germany (a.k.a Germany Empire), and Germany alone, responsible for World War I: not Serbia who planned the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand; not the Austrian-Hungarian Empire…
Cut-and-Paste Gone Awry
....because who the fuck is Ryan?!?
Profits Over Patriotism
Thomas J. Watson, president of IBM, made a bold claim in an editorial published before the United States entered World War II: We are either internationalists or isolationists, and I…
Unintentional Car Repair
This article reminded me of a story my grandmother told me. My grandmother's commute to New York City required a Metro-North train from the Green Farms Station in Westport, CT…
Rick Camp Game
The 1984 game where the Cubs' Ryne Sandberg hit two game-tying home runs off of Bruce Sutter before the Cubs won it in the 11th has been oft-mentioned since Sandberg's…