Month: May 2022

The Hindenburg disaster 5/6/37

The Hindenburg Zeppelin explosion took place 85 years ago yesterday. In The Naked Gun 2 1/2 (1991), there is a scene in a bar with pictures of disasters on the wall including the Titanic, the Hindenburg and Michael Dukakis. Younger readers may not recall that Dukakis was crushed in the 1988 US Presidential election.

Leslie Nielsen was the star of the Naked Gun movies and was fond of using a fart machine. Read about him to find out what he put on his gravestone.

Expand the Supreme Court now

I support expansions of the Court. Republicans essentially stole two seats by not having a vote on Garland and then being hypocrites and pushing Barrett through. As much as I would love a liberal majority on the court, I think you can only justify adding two to make up for the two seats Republicans took. Republicans play hard ball (and win). Democrats need to do this, too. This must be done now. If Republicans win the Senate, they won’t approve anyone Biden nominates for the Supreme Court. They threatened to do this if Hillary Clinton had won in 2016.

A Founding Father and a whalebone

I learned something from this tweet which was posted after the Supreme Court draft was leaked.

A whalebone up your penis? Ouch!! This sounds almost as bad as the Bobbits. I’m kind of sensitive about this stuff. I have had bladder cancer twice and had medical equipment stuck up my penis about 25-30 times. Trust me, it’s painful.

I decided more research on Morris was necessary.

2018 Darwin Awards

He could have used a catheter. They already had them.

This is not the only bizarre thing about Morris:

The Wild Life of Gouverneur Morris, the Most Mysterious Founding Father of Them All

Thanks to Twitter and the rest of the Internet for the education.

"The Constitution is the product of the most respected intellectual minds who founded this country, minds that went on to lead government, become titans of business, and attempt surgery on themselves with a whalebone catheter despite having no medical training."

— McSweeney's (@mcsweeneys.net) 2025-07-01T01:20:14.921Z

Historic Homes of Baltimore on the Sellers Mansion (demolished 2/24/23)

Historic Homes of Baltimore on Instagram and Baltimore Heritage on YouTube both do a great job on Baltimore architecture.

It was destroyed by fire on 2/24/23.

Media gives coverage to Trump rallies they don’t give to Democrats

Examples from the New York Times and Washington Post. It’s very unfair to Democrats.