"Bluesmen were clever, ambitious, and quick to adapt to changing conditions. And their conditions were changed forever by a mail-order catalog."
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How Sears, Roebuck & Co. midwifed the birth of the blues
Let’s hope so. America has the hard-nosed determination to try this and see it through. It’s just a matter of when.
I’ve wanted to see something like this for a while. Watch what happens to the trash created by your lunch in LA.
"The typical instance of Somali piracy isn’t that different from what a young Julius Caesar experienced when he was kidnapped by pirates and held for ransom on his way home from political exile in Asia Minor."
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via the atlantic
Also, a post script: Oh, and one more thing about Caesar. Plutarch tells us that after he was ransomed he got some ships, raided the pirates, and had them all crucified.
