Drive down Harlem Rd by the Wardens’ homes near Pecan Grove. The inmates are still out there in their white jumpsuits cutting grass.

I just also want to say; you’ve got contemporary bones to compare those to.

It wasn’t just Convict Release that got people in the days just after slavery “ended”, people would end up working for dirt wages from their former masters, and they’d get locked into these questionably legal contracts that stipulated a work period of YEARS.

I live a few minutes from here and where that site is. A couple of things are missing from the article, 1. They were found in Sugar Land, and where they were at is not too far from the original Imperial Sugar plant that parts of it still stand. They were most likely used to farm sugar cane for imperial. 2. There was…

Can I just piss everyone off right now and say that I LOVE road trips with my kids? Somehow in our family we’re all the best version of ourselves when we’re travelling. One thing that I love about it is that my kids are still dazzled by seeing new things (they are 9, 5, and 2) so I get a lot of satisfaction in seeing…

I don’t have kids so I don’t know that particular hell. My hell-trips are the annual drive back to the old homestead with my mother, who is disabled and elderly and no longer allowed to drive. This means I do all the driving (12 hours total), plus all the planning and packing and trip management, and also take three…

I have driven coast-to-coast in three days, and over 1,000 miles from Alabama to New York in one. I’ve never tried either one with young children. If you’re headed west, leave in the pre-dawn, so you won’t still be on the road with the setting sun in your eyes. When driving east, leave late so you won’t have the…

When my Brother and I were kids (6 and 10, respectively), my parents decided to tell us that we were going to be making a 12 hour round trip to Vermont and back to buy a hand-made quilt. Being 6 and 10, the thought of being in a car for 12 hours to buy a fucking quilt sounded like absolute torture to us. And oh my…

As a Marylander I find it incredibly offensive that Lays is lumping old bay chips in with a bunch of fucking novelty flavors.

In this case, Trump said there was no “colusion” which is, technically, correct since “colusion” is not an actual word. MAGA?

The ending of Gossip Girl has been vindicated. (No.)

Fuck her apology.

Maybe they are agents of the NPS and NFS.

Could a Suburban be a truck?

Auto Mechanic: I see the problem

Woodchucks 2020

The City of Chicago tickets heavily in Black and gentrification adjacent neighborhoods. They sweep through the neighborhoods multiple times a day looking for reasons to ticket such as tinted windows, cracked windshields and side mirrors, being parked more than 1 foot from the curb, or they just make stuff up. To be…

*smh* Can’t believe we have to do this again.

It is not civil to politely ask people to leave. When you don’t want another person to be in a certain place, the civil thing to do is separate them from their families, kidnap and imprison their children indefinitely, and lock them up. This is precisely what the people at the restaurant failed to do. Be civil. Be…

“During his remarks, Severino also relayed a story about a Catholic nurse who was required to perform an abortion, which violated her religious beliefs.”