February 2012
4 posts
One Man's Struggle to Change a Sentence
History, bombs, a riot…and combative Wikipedia editing
“For the past 10 years I’ve immersed myself in the details of one of the most famous events in American labor history, the Haymarket riot and trial of 1886. Along the way I’ve written two books and a couple of articles about the episode. In some circles that affords me a presumption of expertise on the subject....
When an Entire Village Wins the Lottery
This is so great. A northern Spanish village of struggling farmers chipped in and bought lottery tickets through their homemakers’ association and won millions.
Initial reactions of the townspeople, each having won hundreds of thousands of dollars include, ‘“Some of the ladies talked about going to the hairdresser,” Mayor Pons said. “But the hairdresser won, too. And she said, ‘I’m...