What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

Albert DeSalvo, most famous of the Boston Stranglers, was originally sent to the Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. He escaped, not necessarily because of the normal reasons, but to try and become a whistleblower for the horrific conditions there.



It worked just enough that he got transferred to Walpole Prison. But the whistleblowing part did not pan out; regardless of DeSalvo's reputation or his own motives, it likely wouldn't have done any good. As the video above explains, around the same time, Frederick Wiseman was trying to get his documentary about the hospital, Titicut Follies released, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts fought tooth and nail to have the film destroyed, eventually succeeding in it just being banned for over two decades. If someone like Frederick Wiseman couldn't get the news out, would anyone have cared about what DeSalvo had to say?

[Silver]

I just now realized what that question was about yesterday.

[Rev. Rye]

Apparently, the suffix “trans-“ has been applied to trans people since (at the latest) 1656.

Transection (from trans and sexus) a turning or passing from one sex to another.

Transfeminate (from trans and foemina) to turn from wo∣man to man, or from one sex to another. Dr. Br.

Note, apparently, “transfeminate” has a note that the lexiconographer invented the term, but “Transection” does not.

And here’s a link to a 1659 edition of the dictionary in question. The two words are on page 654.

[PhCritique]

Henry "Crip" Heard performed in the "1949 film Boarding House Blues" (Travalanche)  Whether this performance inspired or influenced the modern crip walk isn't verified.

“Crip” Heard: The One-Armed, One-Legged Dancer – (Travalanche)

[Silver]

The first castle built in Spain was in 967 AD.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The first castle built in Spain was in 967 AD.

Burgalimar. Been there.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

That Dumble Amps are apparently back.





*Sighs* For those of us who don't know, Dumble is a brand of guitar amplifier notorious for A) sounding amazing, and B) being ludicrously expensive (to the point where purchase agreements apparently required resale prices to be a minimum of five figures). A sampling of the artists known to use his amps:

• Carlos Santana
  
• Lowell George
  
• Larry Carlton
  
• Robben Ford
  
• Stevie Ray Vaughan
  
• Joe Bonamassa
  
• John Mayer
  
• Ben Harper
  
• Eric Johnson
  
• Ry Cooder
  
• Christopher Cross
  
• Jackson Browne
  

Howard/Alexander Dumble made each amp himself one at a time, and died a couple years ago. Thus, the fact that the company is back is huge fucking news in the guitar world, even if we don't know exactly what form this return will take.

[Rev. Rye]

In 1974, this song was included in an official hymnal for the US Armed Forces:





It became controversial a few years later once people actually noticed that a hymnal included a song with the refrain
"It's God they ought to crucify
Instead of you and me,
I said to the carpenter
A-hanging on the tree."

It was removed by 1977. Surprisingly, with all the talk about the blasphemous lyrics, very little was focused on the question of how workable it even was as a hymn. Even when I was a Christian, I can't remember the congregation singing a single hymn that had a narrative structure anywhere near this.

[Angrboda]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has a cat ranch.

[brewer]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has a cat ranch.

In Nevada?