Baracoon, the Last Black Cargo - a chat with Deborah Plant about the work of Zora Hurston to uncover the life story of a man taken into slavery in 1859

Addendum to Ton Wolfe obit, Current Events round up, GB&U, accuracy in reporting, hourly pay declines, the mystery of Treasure of the Sierra Madre author B. Traven

Kimberly Guilfoyle, George Dukemejian, Alan Bean, the mystery of Bright Nights, Marilyn Vos Savant on negtive vs positive lightening, the scary power of Big Data, tech utopianism fades, pro-Trump bots perverted 2016 election, DARPA monitors social networks

We mourn the passing of literary giant Tom Wolfe

More commemoration of the great Tom Wolfe

Birthday for Karl Marx, collusion vs conspiracy, 3,000 Trump lies, Marx as a founder of socialism and communism, Greg Palast on GOP anti-democratic efforts in US elections

200 years of "Frankenstein" and its modern version - Silicon Valley companies and their failure to reign in their perverse tech

Trump doctor admits his physical exam report was dictated to him by the Prez after which goons were sent in to remove his medical records, Obit: Chuck McCann, Michael Cohen under attack, the Golden State killer shows how our judicial system fails us, all the rapes are beyond the statute of limitations, though Bill Cosby has changed that for subsequent criminals

The Economists on not to trust economists, internet companies shirk taxes, students unable to use clocks, cursive abandoned, walking The Camino of Spain, the story of a goofy fad

Solar system near collision, Kosovo clocks, near human organ?, MLK+50, Death of Stalin and Putin antics, questionable Syrian attack reports, international injustice