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Latest Blog Entries
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→ The Final Episode, No Agenda
No Agenda has officially come to an end with episode 1916. A sad day for everyone who enjoys podcasts and is in favour of people thinking for themselves. But after JCD’s passing, it was inevitable.
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While the Propellers Knotted like Pretzels
In 1937, Time magazine had this to say about Amelia Earhart crashing her plane on the second leg of her world-circling flight. The press really hit different back then.
For Earhart and Putnam, the crash in Hawaii was a public relations disaster. The March 29 issue of Time magazine drew on the title of a popular Eugene O’Neill play for a piece titled “Mourning Becomes Electra.” After pointing out that several people had flown around the world on commercial airlines, the article said, “Last week Aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam took off from Oakland ‘to establish the feasibility of circling the globe by commercial air travel.’ … With her as navigators she took three men, but not her publicity-wise husband, who stayed at Oakland to sell her autographs at $6 each.” Time’s description of the accident was no less sarcastic: “Down the long concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane crumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 feet on its bottom in a spray of sparks while the propellers knotted like pretzels. With sirens screaming, ambulances dashed to the wreck just as Flyer Amelia stepped out white-faced. Said she, ‘Something must have gone wrong.’
— From the book One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy by Ric Gillespie, U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2024
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I Shall Not Hold You to Any Medieval Code of Faithfulness to Me
This is the letter Amelia Earhart handed her fiancée George Palmer Putnam on the morning of their marriage in 1931. What a woman!
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The First Captain We Lose
The news is everywhere that Patrick Stewart has died. This is a hard time for us Trekkies from back in the day. Walter Koenig just died last Sunday. It strikes me that Stewart is the first Star Trek captain we have lost. That’s a major part of my childhood that’s gone. I certainly did not have it on my bingo card that William Shatner would outlive Patrick Stewart.
I saw Stewart on stage in London once, playing Shakespeare. It was a magical evening. What makes me sad the most about him dying now, I think, is that he left Trekkies on such a sour note with Star Trek: Picard. That series was such a horrible decision all around. Looking back at it, it is almost completely unredeemable. And by all accounts, Stewart had a major hand in how that turned out. That just saddens me. Without that show, all my memories of Patrick Stewart would be good ones.
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