During the Vietnam War , between 1964 and 1975, a curious and dangerous phenomenon occurred within the US Army... the so-called Fragging (act of attacking a superior in the chain of command with the intention of frightening or killing him, usually using fragmentation grenades; hence its name). The u
Kiss my ass (kiss my ass) was the literal response, and printed on official letterhead, from the Alabama Attorney General to threats from the Ku Klux Klan. In 1970, at just 29 years old and shortly after being elected Alabama Attorney General, Bill Baxley reopened the case 16th Street Baptist Churc
The arms race to develop, or improve, ways of killing has been a constant throughout history and across cultures. At least, in this post, we are going to present a non-lethal one… the gay bomb. The Sunshine Project (an international non-governmental organization that investigates and denounces the
Richard Nixon , Antoine Coppolani, Fayard, 2012 Here you will find a telling, if anecdotal, excerpt from the book:https://brumes.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/nixon-liddy-et -the-watergate-excerpt-from-nixon-dantoine-coppolani/ I had already written a set of remarks about Richard Nixon, after reading Ro