Holidays, as celebrated throughout the United States, are closely tied to annual feasts of traditional foods. Thanksgiving has its turkey and pumpkin pie, Christmas its goose, Hanukah its fried potato pancakes, St. Patrick’s Day is usually marked with plates of… Read More ›
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Sex Lives of the Pilgrims: Girls Gone Wild, Gay Guys, An Orgy, Incest & Goodwives Chasing Native Men
“Puritanism,” said legendary wit H. L. Mencken, “is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Clearly, Mencken never pawed through the court record of Plymouth Colony‘s first generations of Pilgrims. In them, one finds eye-popping details of every… Read More ›
Gemini Twins Jack Kennedy and Judy Garland
She made much of the fact that they were both born under the same astrological sign. He did not. Making them both typical of Gemini duality. No matter when they were born, however, it’s not hard to see the factual… Read More ›
Chelsea Clinton’s NBC Job: Presidents’ Daughters Evoking Their Father’s Legacies
There’s something new – and something old, in the news that former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton has been hired by NBC Nightly News as a special correspondent for its frequent “Making a Difference” segments which focus on volunteers striving to… Read More ›
My Friendship with Hillary Clinton’s Mother: The Influence of Observant, Worldly, Hopeful Mrs. Rodham
By 2005, Dorothy Rodham didn’t need to walk to the National Zoo alone. After all, her son-in-law had been President and her daughter was then a United States Senator and an aide or companion could easily have been hired. The… Read More ›
Mao to Fred Mertz: Celebrity Degrees of Separation
Mao Tse-Tung – General George C. Marshall – Lucille Ball – “Fred Mertz” Amazingly, there’s only three degrees of separation between one of the world’s most dramatic dictators and one of the world’s most dictatorial dramatists. In December 1945, President… Read More ›
When Mitt Romney’s Father Ran For President
While his smiling demeanor, groomed appearance and great wealth all suggested that George Romney was something of a privileged aristocrat, the truth was quite the opposite. And while it might also be easy enough to presume the son is a… Read More ›
Harry Truman & Tallulah Bankhead Bond over Bourbon…and Civil Rights, Part II
In the weeks following Truman’s defeat of Dewey in the 1948 presidential election, the actress Tallulah Bankhead was hitting a pinnacle of national fame. Already renowned for her work on stage and film, her political role only increased her visibility…. Read More ›
Harry Truman & Tallulah Bankhead Bond over Bourbon…and Civil Rights
One can’t find two names from politics and entertainment more seemingly dissimilar than that of President Harry S. Truman and actress Tallulah Bankhead. Yet apart from the fact that one was a marital monogamist and the other a bisexual minx,… Read More ›
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