Mike Keeler
MIKE KEELER: May 1774: The Empire Strikes Back
On May 13, 1774, a large vessel sailed into Boston Harbor. It wasn't a whaler, it wasn't a trading ship of any kind. It was the HMS Lively, a...
MIKE KEELER: One Big Bottle of DUH
Let us now praise the pandemic.It was poetic that on the 50th Anniversary of Earth...
MIKE KEELER: The Amazing Thing . . .
This past week’s solar eclipse up in the great north woods was pretty amazing, And...
MIKE KEELER: Spring 1774: Intolerable
In the aftermath of the destruction of the Francis Scott Key bridge this past week,...
Mike Keeler: Back in Daylight Spending Time
As we move into Daylight Savings Time, turns out the only thing we’re saving is...
It’s The Holidays When All Thoughts Turn To South American Polo Players, Bathing Beauties, Xavier Cugat And Mistaken Identities
How's that? Here's how: It starts with all-American beauty Esther Williams and Latin lover Ricardo Montalban. In the 1940's Hollywood paired them in...
Consider All the Pampered, Ungrateful Professional Athletes You Know – And Then There’s This Guy
He joined the Cleveland Indians in 1936 for the bargain price of . He immediately proved himself to be one of the hardest-throwing...
It’s Time to Take Some Facts for a Walk
Here are three data points that have nothing whatsoever to do with each other. Nothing at all. 1. The Humane Society estimates that...
A Little Latin Goes A Long Way
This essay is just a draft. If it were final, it wouldn't contain the well-known phrase, lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci...
If You Think You’ve Got It Bad, Consider Moving to Zimbabwe
This week the United Nations released the 2010 Human Development Index (or HDI), a comprehensive examination of the condition of 169 countries around...
To Arms! To Arms! The Battle for Middle-Earth Rages Anew!
Hollywood never had much hope for The Lord of the Rings. It was "the book which could not be filmed." But then in...