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This also happened to the wives of each of my great grandfather's three brothers.
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This also happened to the wives of each of my great grandfather's three brothers.
...when she married my great grandfather, who immigrated at age 5, due to the Expatriation Act of 1907. Despite her father being a citizen at her birth and her mother being a natural born citizen.
December 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
...when she married my great grandfather, who immigrated at age 5, due to the Expatriation Act of 1907. Despite her father being a citizen at her birth and her mother being a natural born citizen.
Not that it should take a personal connection to have empathy, but too many white Americans don't understand their own proximity to this issue.
I'm 100% descended from Dutch immigrants, the last of which came in 1905. And my great grandmother, who was born here, had her citizenship stripped...
I'm 100% descended from Dutch immigrants, the last of which came in 1905. And my great grandmother, who was born here, had her citizenship stripped...
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Not that it should take a personal connection to have empathy, but too many white Americans don't understand their own proximity to this issue.
I'm 100% descended from Dutch immigrants, the last of which came in 1905. And my great grandmother, who was born here, had her citizenship stripped...
I'm 100% descended from Dutch immigrants, the last of which came in 1905. And my great grandmother, who was born here, had her citizenship stripped...
One of his sons became an early automobile enthusiast and Good Roads advocate and I've always wondered how much his death had to do with that.
November 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
One of his sons became an early automobile enthusiast and Good Roads advocate and I've always wondered how much his death had to do with that.
This occurred about six years after surviving an accident with a train (he didn't realize another train was coming the other direction after waiting for another to pass) that destroyed a railroad shanty, an earlier wagon, and required one of his horses to be put down.
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This occurred about six years after surviving an accident with a train (he didn't realize another train was coming the other direction after waiting for another to pass) that destroyed a railroad shanty, an earlier wagon, and required one of his horses to be put down.
Anecdotal, but my great great grandfather died when maneuvering his wagon over a gutter or rut in the road and some of the logs on his wagon rolled loose, knocking him off and spooking his horses who dragged the wagon over him, crushing his skull in a pool of blood.
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Anecdotal, but my great great grandfather died when maneuvering his wagon over a gutter or rut in the road and some of the logs on his wagon rolled loose, knocking him off and spooking his horses who dragged the wagon over him, crushing his skull in a pool of blood.
I'm assuming ours need to be called?
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm assuming ours need to be called?
Is that what he's up to? The way he seemed to just vanish online has been... concerning.
October 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Is that what he's up to? The way he seemed to just vanish online has been... concerning.
His daddy was Klan.
August 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
His daddy was Klan.
Brian Mast also went to the same college I did, but there were signs already in high school. Apologies to my grandmother who worked for his dad for many years.
August 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Brian Mast also went to the same college I did, but there were signs already in high school. Apologies to my grandmother who worked for his dad for many years.
In fairness I liked Vinay Prasad in college. Just wish he stuck to creative writing.
August 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
In fairness I liked Vinay Prasad in college. Just wish he stuck to creative writing.
James Dobson's death today reminds me of when he ran an article in Focus on the Family claiming they eat aborted fetuses in China.
August 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
James Dobson's death today reminds me of when he ran an article in Focus on the Family claiming they eat aborted fetuses in China.
Perhaps we could even devise some sort of scale for magnitude named after you that goes up to about ten.
July 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Perhaps we could even devise some sort of scale for magnitude named after you that goes up to about ten.
Always fighting the last battle.
June 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Always fighting the last battle.
My great granduncle started publishing some of the earliest route guidebooks for motorists in 1906. Read a lot like printed Google maps directions with landmarks instead of street names because there was no signage. Compiled by personally traversing 1000s of miles on shit roads in pre-Model T cars.
June 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
My great granduncle started publishing some of the earliest route guidebooks for motorists in 1906. Read a lot like printed Google maps directions with landmarks instead of street names because there was no signage. Compiled by personally traversing 1000s of miles on shit roads in pre-Model T cars.
This modern retelling of The Miller's Tale sucks.
May 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This modern retelling of The Miller's Tale sucks.
I think this is what my stated preference would theoretically be, but I'm ashamed to admit what my revealed preference is on this.
May 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I think this is what my stated preference would theoretically be, but I'm ashamed to admit what my revealed preference is on this.
Some of the census questions they used to ask women were just devastating. How many children have you had? How many are living? One of my ancestors answers to those questions: 8 and 3. While still in her childbearing years. And she was not counting any miscarriages.
May 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Some of the census questions they used to ask women were just devastating. How many children have you had? How many are living? One of my ancestors answers to those questions: 8 and 3. While still in her childbearing years. And she was not counting any miscarriages.
Ugh, I knew this guy in college. We were both involved with the student literary magazine and I had a bunch of creative writing classes with him. It's a shame he didn't just become an arrogant, contrarian novelist or poet.
May 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Ugh, I knew this guy in college. We were both involved with the student literary magazine and I had a bunch of creative writing classes with him. It's a shame he didn't just become an arrogant, contrarian novelist or poet.
Anybody got a gift link for this?
May 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Anybody got a gift link for this?