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On September 27, 1903, The Old '97—aka The Fast Mail—was speeding along the train tracks from Monroe, VA to Spencer, NC, trying to make up for lost time. Just outside of Danville, the engineer came around a sharp curve too quickly, and the train plummeted off a trestle into the ravine below. The legendary, deadly accident spawned a folk ballad, which became the first country song to to sell more than a million records.
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"I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds and arrange them in a horn-shaped basket on my dining room table. That shit is going to look so seasonal."
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A Harvard study finds that people who witness torture are far more likely to believe that the subject is guilty, in an apparent subconscious effort to rationalize the inhumane treatment.
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On the last item, I’m pretty sure we’ve seen that writ large in American society (see, e.g., public reaction to Guantanamo/Bagram).