Mr. Baseball, get well soon:
Brewers Hall of Fame broadcaster Bob Uecker has always been better at turning a comedic phrase than turning on a fastball, so it came as no surprise when he delivered sobering news on Tuesday with a touch of his famous humor.
Uecker, 75 and in his 40th season in the Brewers’ radio [...]
Ten years ago today, federal agents pulled young Elian Gonzalez out of the home of relatives. This led to him being returned to Communist Cuba:
The Elian Gonzalez story was my first weblogging obsession. I recall staying up way too late at night pouring over news stories, writing up analysis, then hand-coding them in HTML to [...]
Somewhere inside the confines of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing there’s a complete separation of aesthetics and technology. In the hopes of keeping a few steps ahead of counterfeiters our government continues making our currency into a blotchy mess of color:
The folks who print America’s money have designed a high-tech makeover of the $100 [...]
Inspired by a discussion on Twitter I dug around finding some of the best covers of Jimi Hendrix’s classic “Little Wing.” It might be Hendrix’s most beautiful song. It doesn’t have the ferocity and power of “Purple Haze” or “All Along the Watchtower” (itself a cover). It’s delicate in its lyrics (“butterflies and moon beams” [...]
Here’s a beautiful picture from inside the Library of Congress.
[via the Library of Congress]
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