To The Manner Born

In Sunday's  (30 March, 2014) St. Louis Post Dispatch:  Sarah knows her art and her craft, I suspect a 20 yo editor in the fuel supply.(...

I once prided myself on knowing how to behave.  I may not have behaved, but mother, reinforced by father, beat good manners into her sons.  ...

A story in the New Orleans Times Picayune caught my eye.  The Haspel family, creators of the American seersucker suit had re-purchased t...

Sir Roger Doughty Tischborne Baronet or Butcher? by Carlo Pellegrini (Ape) published in Vanity Fair June 6, 1871 Old families livin...

Oil on canvas- Carlo Pellegrini by Jules Bastien Lepage Maxminimus photo One of the greatest newspaper marketing ideas ever was Thomas...

Tichborne Dole-1671 As the New Yorker says, there will always be an England. This is one of the thousands of reasons why. The Tichb...

I'm trying something new this year- I'm becoming a tryer.  I am by nature happier with the old, the tried, the what I know, but t...

unhistorical : March 22, 1933:  Dachau concentration camp  opens. Dachau concentration camp, located in the southern German state o...

I saw this ad by a local realtor today.

Mrs. T and  I took in the French Middle School of Topeka, Kansas thespian's spring production " Mirror Image, a Real Enchanted M...

Wearin' o' the green and wishing a Happy Mr. Patrick's Day My name is Toad, I am in introvert. Sophia Dembling, writing i...

Do you have a kid who's answer to most requests is "That sounds cool, count me in." Mrs. T has one and in my experience the...

Almon ran a funeral parlor in Kansas City in the 1880's.  His nearest competitor's wife worked for the telephone company as a nig...

If you have ever questioned why you are subjected to ceaseless bullshit whenever you watch television or read the newspaper you can most ...

On March 9, 1959 Barbie was introduced to the world at the New York Toy Show.   Although not especially funny, the lack of thought behind...

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Ever notice how the virtuous desperately want to tell you how long they've been virtuous? Toad

In July 1945, soon after fighting in Europe ended during World War II, the British held post war elections in which Prime Minister Winst...

Today would be the birthday of General Matthew Ridgway, the man who due to his exceptional competence was given every nasty job the US cou...