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Funny, Wise Quotations on Taxes

By 04/18/2017

Are you in pain from the IRS? Well, you’re in good company. Check out what these characters have to say about paying taxes — Al Capone, Albert Einstein, Dave Barry, Mark Twain, Mae West, and many others.

JFK Assassination: Low Quality of Disinformation

By 04/19/2017

The quality of disinformation on the Kennedy assassination has never been very high. Much of it is pseudoscience, slick enough to fool the general public, but nothing that ever holds up under scrutiny.   Earlier this week, I saw what I think is a specimen of it in an obituary in the Dallas Morning News […]

What’s Missing from the Trump Jr. Emails — and What it Reveals

By 07/18/2017

The recently released emails between Donald Trump Jr. and Trump family friend Rob Goldstone are intriguing to some of us  — because of what is not in them.   Last Monday’s New York Times headline announced “Trump Jr. Was Told in Email of Russian Effort to Aid Campaign.” The first paragraph of the story said: […]

What Really Happened in Durham, NC? A Nasty Thought

By 08/16/2017

On August 14, in Durham NC, something strange happened that does not make sense to me.   A protester climbed up on the statue of a Confederate soldier, tied a rope around his neck, gave a signal, and her fellow activists pulled until the statue came crashing down. Then several others converged on the statue, […]

A Murderous Evening in the Old South

By 08/18/2017

I’m having an attack of nostalgia. I feel a deep pang of loss as I think about the Confederate statues that line Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia. Are their days numbered? They stand only a few blocks from where my maternal grandparents lived in the 1950s, and where I spent many summers.  I loved staring […]

Curious Coincidences in IRS Trump Audit

By 09/25/2017

Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns has long been a subject of conjecture. To that, we’d like to add a related mystery: Why did the IRS begin auditing Donald Trump in 2002? Why that year in particular? Donald Trump’s finances were always complicated and fertile ground for the IRS, yet, it only began […]

The Predator You Think You Know

By 11/19/2017

I have a big question for all the presumably sincere people who vouch for the good character of accused sexual predators like Roy Moore. But before I ask it, let me show you what these people have said:   Referring to the stories of Roy Moore’s unwanted grabbing and groping of teenage girls, his lawyer, […]

Images of Racism in America Over the Years

By 01/15/2018

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, WhoWhatWhy presents — through a fascinating collection of pictures — a brief history of American racism, a look at the kind of hatred, atrocities, and soul-searing humiliation that spurred King into action.