Alternative Histories

Sitka, Cromwell, Redi-Whip, Phalanges and Trig: A Look Back

By berightback
Published: August 11, 2009

Recently, our esteemed editor posted about apocalypse harbinger, lipstick-smeared syntaxulatrix, and Machiavellian outrage merchandiser Sarah Palin, who seems at the moment to be sliding from public prominence into some sort of shadowy PAC-rat purgatory, her Google-enabled grimace relegated to haunting the margins of any website who happens to mention her.

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Alternative Histories

My Quirky Little State: The Cursed Coney Island in the West

By Latterday Lenin
Published: January 05, 2009

The state I call home, Utah, has a violent and bizarre history. Salt Lake City has, for many years, been a stopover–no one’s destination, not even for the people who live here. This is the best description of the city I’ve been able to come up with. Anyway, in this column I teach you an interesting little tidbit of Utah history. Today we’ll be learning about Saltair.

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