Secrets of a Master Builder | Article James Buchanan Eads, 1820-1887 In the spring of 1887, worn and frail, the engineer James Buchanan Eads propped himself up in his sick bed to revise plans for his latest project. Outside the window he could hear the sound of waves crashing onto the beach in Nassau, the Bahamas. His second wife Eunice and stepdaughter Adelaide fussed over him; in all likelihood they knew he was dying. Read More...
A passenger left travelers stunned after he was caught giving a friend a tattoo during a flight.
The man was caught using a tattoo gun while the plane was landing.
The video was posted by Instagram account Passenger Shaming, with the caption: “Thoughts and prayers for no turbulence.”
The video shows the man using a tattoo gun on his friend’s hand, although it isn’t clear what he was drawing.
Leaning the hand on his tray table, large puddles of ink are seen splattering over it. Read More...
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has been arguing for years that a flood of “dark money” flowing through right-wing front groups has corrupted the Supreme Court. Never has there been more evidence to bolster his claim.
Whitehouse (D-R.I.) told me in an extensive phone interview last week that Justice Samuel A. Alito’s Jr.’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal intending to pre-but a ProPublica story revealing he failed to disclose gifts from billionaire and right-wing donor Paul Singer and recuse from a case involving Singer was “very, very weird. Read More...
