History for Kossacks: Unitary Moonbat
(author’s note: This probably isn’t the best night for posting this sort of diary – autobiographies don’t tend to sell all that well while cities are burning – but since this is the day my novel went...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: Locofocos
The greedheads and machine politicians in charge of the New York Democratic Party had a problem in the mid-1830s: increasing numbers of their membership were becoming aware that their state party had...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: The First Crusade
Ah, the Crusades! Knights in shining armor, smiting swarthy Saracens (with their scimitars!) on the sands of Syria! The Christian take on the concept of the holy war, the code of chivalry in...
View ArticleIPO of a Lifetime: Huitzilopotchtli, Inc.!
Welcome to Huitzilopotchtli, Incorporated! We’re a family-owned, faith-based company with roots in religious tradition stretching back to before the arrival of the European God on this continent – you...
View ArticleHell No! I Am A Loco-Foco
I am a Loco-Foco.I was not always a Loco-Foco – until recently, I was content with the label "disaffected Dem." Alas, recent circumstances have compelled me to re-examine the nature of my allegiance...
View ArticleNFTT: Back When I Was A Troop...
I was surprised, honored, and daunted (in that order) when I was asked about writing a diary for the NFTT Blogathon – alas, I’m better known for rattling off obscure historical factiods than raising...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: Apocalypse 2012!
or We All Have Less Than A Year To Live!!! Yikes!!!In March, 2008 - (the 23rd, to be specific – your resident historical Cassandra tried to warn Kossackdom: The person we place in the White House this...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: A Pagan Christmas to All!
Among the mouth-breathingest of mouth-breathing Republicans, it's a well-known fact that every November or so, we libruls gather in our covens and plot the paganization of Christmas. In their Left...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: The Occupation of Washington, 1932
It must have had a dreamlike quality to it: a summer's day on the Potomac, the tanks and troops on the street accompanied by officers like George Patton and Dwight Eisenhower, led by none other than...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: More Fascist Analogies
Republicans have a kind of game they play with Godwin's Law: they like to wait for their liberal opponent to mention actual, real, historical fascists, then they pounce with all the grace of their...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: Fascist Analogies
In the course of modern political bloviation, we often allow distinctions between "big-R" and "small-r" republicans, as well as "big-D" and "small-d" democrats, to go unchallenged – it's perfectly...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: Atlantis
An Open Letter to all the Very Serious People who spent last week talking about Weiners of the capitalized and non-capitalized varieties instead of Governor Christie's abuses, the petering out of the...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: Modern Libya
It's funny: some of the places most unsuitable for human habitation are among the longest-habitated. Libya's turned out to be one of those – a place that's been lived in since we Homos were still...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: Locofocos
The greedheads and machine politicians in charge of the New York Democratic Party had a problem in the mid-1830s: increasing numbers of their membership were becoming aware that their state party had...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: The First Crusade
Ah, the Crusades! Knights in shining armor, smiting swarthy Saracens (with their scimitars!) on the sands of Syria! The Christian take on the concept of the holy war, the code of chivalry in...
View ArticleIPO of a Lifetime: Huitzilopotchtli, Inc.!
Welcome to Huitzilopotchtli, Incorporated! We’re a family-owned, faith-based company with roots in religious tradition stretching back to before the arrival of the European God on this continent – you...
View ArticleHell No! I Am A Loco-Foco
I am a Loco-Foco.I was not always a Loco-Foco – until recently, I was content with the label "disaffected Dem." Alas, recent circumstances have compelled me to re-examine the nature of my allegiance...
View ArticleNFTT: Back When I Was A Troop...
I was surprised, honored, and daunted (in that order) when I was asked about writing a diary for the NFTT Blogathon – alas, I’m better known for rattling off obscure historical factiods than raising...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: Apocalypse 2012!
or We All Have Less Than A Year To Live!!! Yikes!!!In March, 2008 - (the 23rd, to be specific – your resident historical Cassandra tried to warn Kossackdom: The person we place in the White House this...
View ArticleHistory for Kossacks: A Pagan Christmas to All!
Among the mouth-breathingest of mouth-breathing Republicans, it's a well-known fact that every November or so, we libruls gather in our covens and plot the paganization of Christmas. In their Left...
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