Japan sumo champion Harumafuji charged with assault

“The grand champion is reported to have been angered that his countryman was checking his phone while being given advice. The latter was admitted to hospital with concussion and a fractured skull.”

“Harumafuji admitted punching him hitting him with a karaoke remote control but denied using a beer bottle in the attack.”

Mr. Victor Tango, the Hokie Plane stopping by on the way to Big Bend.

From the BBC.

Tiananmen Square protest death toll ‘was 10,000’

“. . . Students linked arms but were mown down including soldiers. APCs then ran over bodies time and time again to make ‘pie’ and remains collected by bulldozer. Remains incinerated and then hosed down drains.”

One of my favorites.  The annual Texas Monthly Bum Steer Awards.

Bum Steer Awards 2018: The Rest of the List

From Quartz:

US nuclear tests killed far more civilians than we knew

When the US used nuclear weapons during World War II, bombing the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, conservative estimates suggest 250,000 people died in immediate aftermath. Even those horrified by the bombing didn’t realize that the US would deploy similar weapons against its own people, accidentally, and on a comparable scale.

Every year Bloomberg puts out a list of the best articles not published by Bloomberg.  Some good reading here:

Jealousy List 2017

The rain let up and we were able to get the fire pit going.  It was still cold.  Good thing I had a warm sweater.

Was wondering about slave rebellions is the US.  I knew about Nat Turner’s Rebellion, but I found this in Wiki.  Over 250 incidents, but not really noted until 1940.  I wonder how this connects to the (white) gun culture in the south.

Numerous black slave rebellions and insurrections took place in North America during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. There is documentary evidence of more than 250 uprisings or attempted uprisings involving ten or more slaves. Three of the best known in the United States during the 19th century are the revolts by Gabriel Prosser in Virginia in 1800, Denmark Vesey in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, and Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.