President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown... read more
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr., the internationally recognized poet and provocateur, died Monday in Blacksburg, Virginia. She was 81. read more
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A white ex-police detective in Kansas died Monday in an apparent suicide just before the start of his criminal trial over allegations that he sexually assaulted Black women and terrorized those who tried fight back. Local police found Roger Golubski dead of a gunshot wound on the back porch of his split-level home outside Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said "there are no indications of foul play" in the 71-year-old's death, discovered Monday morning after a neighbor heard a gunshot.
One of the first American socialists to run for office, Wilshire was born rich and got richer before losing it all by self-publishing a socialist magazine. read more
On November 16, 1974, a group of scientists sent a message to the stars, with the hope that someone out there might be listening. read more
Mea culpa. Cow patties etc. also psychotropic.