Nobody thinks the origin of the term “money to burn” might be attributed to one person, but Horace Austin Warner Tabor, known commonly as “Haw,” may very well have been responsible for it. Haw Tabor was born on November 26, 1830 to a life of modest means. He trained as a stone mason, and in 1857 he married a woman named Augusta Pierce. Augusta was a frugal woman who worked
Bless me, Scholars, for I have sinned. But let me explain. I totally get that Hallmark, as a corporate media entity, represents the values of elitist America. During the holiday season especially, Hallmark celebrates a very White Christmas: it is the story of fantastic white people who, despite their peculiar adversities in life, have somehow managed to be financially successful, to save the spirit of Christmas, and to fall in
A squadron of Canadian geese lifted off from the half-frozen lake, curved in a smooth semi-circle, and powered over my head in a perfect V, the very picture of order and purpose as they began the next leg of their annual mission. Solitary fishermen stood along the shoreline at distant intervals, like quarter-mile markers measuring the bike path I rode. A man wearing a Minnesota Vikings jacket sat at a
Humanity is facing an inevitable catastrophe that world leaders continue to ignore due mostly to indifference and blind ignorance. This means that the public and scientific community need to more proactively address the issue to avert disaster. Specifically, on July 23rd, 2012, a massive solar storm of two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) barely missed Earth. Had the CMEs arrived one week earlier, they would have caused trillions of dollars worth of
I am having serious problems with my dongle. This is a sentence my younger self never imagined saying in the future. Not that I envisioned myself in a flying car or wearing a jet pack, but I certainly didn’t predict having to talk to an Ethiopian tech support center about why my dongle isn’t dangling. Or dingling, or whatever the hell a dongle does. Whatever it is supposed to do,
To see and understand the law. This the central theme of Aborigines, the natives of the Australian continent. Aborigines abide by a cosmological understanding of the universe that is deeply tied to legends of ancestral beings of the Dreaming. Their lives center on understanding and respecting these forces, persisting through the tradition of passing down knowledge from generation to generation through various forms of art and storytelling in efforts to
