Gruesome and bloody Chinese torture methods from the distant past
Execution of a Chinese prisoner by beheading In China, over many, many centuries, dating back more than two thousand years, two philosophies known as Confucianism…
Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 07/2016
Marxism: Highlights from Groucho’s FBI file
The other day I was refreshing my memory on Groucho’s LSD escapade with Paul Krassner, when it occurred to me that it might be beneficial…
Florida man changes his name to ‘Kraftwerk’
The competition for the world’s biggest Kraftwerk fan just went up a notch–maybe three notches. A man in Florida posted a Flickr set depicting his…
Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey visits 60s right wing talk show
Watching Joe Pyne is interesting because he almost seems ahead of his time. Pyne was a broadcaster who had a series of panel talk shows…
London designer intends to make clothes with the lab-grown skin of the late Alexander McQueen
When the fashion designer Alexander McQueen sewed locks of his hair into his 1992 show “Jack the Ripper Stalks His Victims,” it probably never crossed…
Cleveland braces for the Republican National Convention with a rude coloring book
Trump emulating King Kong on Cleveland’s landmark, Terminal Tower I moved to Cleveland three years ago, and as a Cleveland resident, I think of the…
‘William Shatner Live’: William Shatner pretends to be a serious actor, 1977
I was in a record store the other day when I noticed an LP I’d never seen before–a sealed copy of a 1977 album called…