Israel
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‘Limiting free speech’
U.S. District Judge William G. Young, a Reagan appointee, issued a remarkable 161-page ruling on Sept. 30 that found the Trump administration unconstitutionally violated the free speech rights of pro-Palestinian protesters and academics. Among the 85-year-old jurist’s findings: ICE agents wore masks to “terrorize Americans” and the administration incorrectly conflated antisemitism with criticism of Israel. Continue reading
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Cat boxing, floaters, St. Louis orangutans, UFOs, dumb cops, Hitler sightings, and other minutiæ
BOXING CATS: 75 years ago, the featured act at Club Boulevard on North Grand was Eddie Fay and his boxing cats. The Post-Dispatch memorialized the act in a full-page spread on May 2, 1948; two days later, the Star-Times had a Humane Society rep warning Fay “against using rough treatment on the cats.” Fay had Continue reading
Arthur Aull, atomic bomb, boxing, Buz Sawyer, cat boxing, cats, cigarettes, discrimination, Eddie Fay, FBI, firefighters, housing, Israel, Jane Arden, Mussolini, pedestrian deaths, Piasa bird, pompier ladders, printing, prosecution, Salvation Army, Sarah Bernhardt, soccer, Spanish-American War, urban blight, USS St. Louis, Vietnam
Roland Klose 