Peter SchorschJuly 3, 2024
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Every party has a pooper.
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Peter SchorschJuly 3, 2024
Scott PowersNovember 5, 2021
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With U.S. borders opening to vaccinated visitors, demand rises quickly.
Peter SchorschJuly 4, 2021
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Every party needs a pooper; now it can be you.
Peter SchorschJuly 4, 20209min420
Every party has a pooper.
Peter SchorschJuly 4, 2017
7min261
Every party has a pooper, that’s why some people go to Fourth of July parties armed with trivia that casts doubt on conventional wisdom — especially in American history. When partygoers are lighting fireworks, exclaiming “Isn’t America beautiful?” these historical fact checkers rain the truth on their parade. Huffington Post offers 10 “truth firecrackers” to liven […]
Martin DyckmanFebruary 19, 2017
10min324
Late in the campaign, the New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz wrote that Queen Elizabeth II was offering to take the colonies back, suggesting that Americans dissatisfied with their options should just write in her name for president. It doesn’t seem quite as funny now as it did then. Let’s imagine, though, that we are still […]
Peter SchorschJuly 4, 2016
9min202
Every party has a pooper, that’s why some people go to Fourth of July parties armed with trivia that casts doubt on conventional wisdom — especially in American history. When partygoers are lighting fireworks, exclaiming “Isn’t America beautiful?” these historical fact checkers rain the truth on their parade. Huffington Post offers 10 “truth firecrackers” to liven […]
Guest AuthorMarch 14, 20146min160
In my home, framed paintings, degrees, and pictures hang on the walls in every room. But two important frames hold historical documents — primarily to remind my children that we, our people, didn’t always enjoy acceptance, inclusion and opportunity here in this country. One is a Thomas Nast cartoon from the 1800s depicting the Irishman […]