The Laboratory

This acrylic on canvas painting captures the artist's grandson in a domestic setting. The work focuses on the vivid primary colors of the toddler's clothing and the sharp, graphic nature of the patches, which contrast with the soft, neutral tones of the kitchen cabinetry. The lighting is high-key...

Murica 2.0 Dan Carpenter Creative non fiction Even though it seems to be a global path in the late 19th and early 20th century, America took a strikingly early lead in translating eugenic ideas into actual policy.
While Sir Francis Galton in Britain coined the term "eugenics" in 1883, and the concept certainly spread internationally, the U.S.
was a pioneer in enacting eugenic legislation.
This push began even before the 1920s; for example, Connecticut passed a eugenic marriage law restricting...

The nodding oxeye bends before the wind, The woodbine quakes lest boys their flowers should find, And prickly dogrose spite of its array Can't dare the blossom-seeking hand away, While thistles wear their heavy knobs of bloom Proud as a warhorse wears its haughty plume, And by the roadside danger's self defy; On commons where pined sheep and oxen lie In ruddy pomp and ever thronging mood It stands and spreads like danger in a wood, And in the village street where meanest weeds Can't stand unt...