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All Lost Socks Returned

Efficacy of Prayer Proven, Vatican Claims; Schoolgirl Cited as Probable Cause

Staten Island, NY, April 1, 2019 — In what appears to be “a demonstration of the efficacy of prayer,” as Pope Francis pronounced from Rome earlier today, billions of lost socks have returned […]

Cabin Fever 2019: Bits & Pieces (a)

On Groundhog Day 2019, February 2 as always, Staten Island Chuck, our local expert, unexpectedly and coincidentally achieved consensus with his elder, Punxsutawney Phil, predicting an early spring. And we did get a record high of 78F on February 21.

But winter won’t just throw in the towel around these parts, where we’ve had snow, […]

Alternate History: Robert Capa on D-Day (40b)

This makes the Capa portions of Landing on the Edge of Eternity a sorry display of little more than copying and pasting that masquerades as historical research and analysis. […]

Alternate History: Robert Capa on D-Day (40a)

A bit further on (and, in a historian, this is unforgivable), Robert Kershaw actually changes Capa’s own words to conform Capa’s account to the misleading version concocted by Richard Whelan, Capa’s official biographer. … That’s not revisionist historianship; it’s corrupt historianship, inexcusable. […]

Alternate History: Robert Capa on D-Day (39)

Cynthia Young has a bad habit that’s fatal to credible scholarship: By dint of her position as the de facto world’s foremost Capa authority, she considers herself entitled to simply make up shit like this. […]