Shockingly incompetent leadership at the top in the 1980s never manages to repair the massive systemic issues in the US Military in the 1970s post-Nam. Crime rates remain high. Race riots remain common. Drug use is commonplace at all levels. Corruption is endemic in the military-industrial...
You just described Actual (Freestyle & Greco-Roman) Wrestling, LOL. I guess a pro league could adopt the theatrical aspects of Kayfabe. Real matches with orthodox rules and Points that Mean Something, but all the attitude and personality.
Illinois Nazis (to quote Elwood) love Pagan symbolism (Runes, Norse Imagery), but are overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian in my experience. KKK markets itself as overtly Christian (mostly Protestant & very anti-Catholic until recently). Lots of overlap in the Venn diagram for White and...
US would have gotten out of the region earlier. ISIS sucked the US back in just as we were trying to leave. Maybe could/would have left Afghanistan earlier too. It would have effects on US politics (enough said about that). It would also affect the Syrian Civil War and Iranian power projection...
@newsgeeking: please do not post partial contributions here. The NHL stuff is fine, but please take it to a PM until you have a fully completed post before putting it here. This thread is for completed posts only, not running drafts.
"It took him 28 years to win the Oscar and it's only gonna take him one race to become a winner in the Winston Cup"
Entertainment Tonight on child actor Frankie Muniz officially entering NASCAR after his Best Supporting Actor Oscar win for Rainbow Warrior, the Jeff Gordon Story following a...
It would definitely require a Pre-1900 PoD I think, so this may be the wrong forum. Perhaps a "Successful Reconstruction" TL with two or more southern states dominated by a Freeman/Scalawag/Carpetbagger Republican coalition. At a bare minimum some sort of Jim Crow situation where only white land...
Today brings us full circle, one week, one TLIAW. The Mrs. and I thank you all for your support and feedback. To the "old timers" who were there through the original A Hippie in the House of Mouse to the new names and faces that started here with Carpenter's Hammer, I and we greatly appreciate...
Clip: Karen, looking older and fuller, leads a camera crew through a modest living room scattered with toys, many of them lined up in perfect rows.
Karen: And here’s where we live most of our lives, as you (laughs) can probably see!
Heavens to Betsy’s “I Wanna’ Be a Karen,” a song modeled on...
Yes, I left a few off the table. I largely overlooked L7 for the same reason as Hole: I've been trained by the Long Plastic Hallway to classify them under "Grunge", which is doubly ludicrous given how much overlap there is there. I mean Tobi Vale was mentioned as a "muse" for Kurt Cobain and...
Clip: The Carpenters performing “Superstar”
Title Card:
You Said you’d be Coming Back this Way Again, Baby
[Clip Ends]
Stills and footage from Karen at this time, with her children and husband and their modest home on Long Island. “Superstar” continued to play in the background.
Narrator...