What it takes to avoid hearing a word spoken by Kellyanne Conway

It takes not watching CNN or MSNBC, to start with. It takes having the speaker off while scanning news on Google, for out of nowhere a speaker can begin.

What it takes, in actuality, is working everyday on what the lives of Patriot women and children were like during the Revolution.

Talk about hunkering down.

"In Aleppo once" and the vanity of the abysmally ignorant candidates for the Presidency

I can't get past this. Thomas Jefferson would have known OTHELLO. FDR would have known OTHELLO. Bill Clinton would have known OTHELLO. W would have heard the word OTHELLO  at Yale though he may not have known which vice president he was. But for Gary Johnson in 2016 not to know either Shakespeare or current world history should make him go home to Roswell, today.

How can he take himself seriously? Trump can take himself seriously because he beat out 16 for his current job and is a multi multi billionaire. But vacant vacuous "OH! sure" Gary!

The man who has no Shakespeare running through his mind . . . .

"In Aleppo once"--and has Gary Johnson never heard of Paul Robeson, either?

Shouldn't Gary Johnson just give up, now. The epitaph for his ridiculous campaign is "You're kidding." No, he was not kidding. He was just ignorant, and does not know one of the most memorable passages in Shakespeare and does not know one of the hottest of hot spots in the world right now.

Thinking about Taylor Swift's gym visit is better than thinking about Kellyanne Conway

Whatever gets me through another day.

The Holocaust documentaries for floor exercises got too much and then Dexter . . .

Dexter became too painful. I got to Season 4 Episode 6 and the relentless threats to Dexter's privacy just got too painful. How could I keep watching, even from the floor with skin tones gray as ash? I went to Wikipedia last night and found that if I endured a few more episodes that particular devouring character would leave the show.
Every good man needs a little privacy to achieve his best work.

An unusual Revolutionary account of a "mixed blooded" marriage

North Carolina Stokes County SS

Be it known that before me Charles Banner a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Samuel Stewart aged about seventy-six years brother to the above named Jemima Harris [sic] he being a person well known for veracity & truth being duly sworn on this 28th day of May 1842 declares on his oath that it was always reported & believed in the neighborhood and Counties of Surry & Stokes aforesaid that the above named Nathaniel Harris [sic] Served in the capacity of a fifer & drummer in the Revolutionary War as stated by he is this Deponent's Sister in the foregoing Declaration, and further he states that he has just reason to believe that his said sister Jemima was lawfully married to the said Nathaniel Harrison by William Thorton who was a Justice of the peace in Surry County aforesaid which marriage happened shortly after the division of said County when Stokes County was cut off about the year 1790 that he was present at the marriage because his parents & the family were very much opposed to the match and his sister Jemima aforesaid secretly absconded from her parents in Stokes County living near the line of Surry County & went over to Esquire Thornton's who said he had married them together and that they were lawful man and wife, that this deponent's Father David Stewart was very angry at his neighbor Thornton Esquire for marrying Jemima his daughter to Nathaniel Harrison aforesaid as it was alleged that Harrison was mixed blooded, and appeared somewhat dark complexion, the said Nathaniel Harrison died upwards of 20 years ago in Stokes County and that Jemima his sister aforesaid is now his widow and a pauper in the poor house of Stokes & has only one living child named Peggy now a widow Grimes. Sworn to and subscribed the date above mentioned before me

S/ C. Banner, JP                                              S/ Samuel Stewart, X his mark

John Goodman will play him