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John Kennedy Toole – A Confederacy of Dunces: Books That Killed Their Authors #2

The Icarian Posted on October 20, 2023 by adminFebruary 2, 2025

A Confederacy of Dunces When John Kennedy Toole won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981 for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces., he was unable to receive the prize in person. He’d been dead for 13 years. Toole was … Continue reading →

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Previously

  • The Coming Subprime Car Loan Collapse October 17, 2025
  • Martial Law Would End America As We Know It October 16, 2025
  • Honoré de Balzac – The Human Comedy: Books That Killed Their Authors #8 September 9, 2025
  • Lammas or Lughnasadh? Let The Harvest Begin July 31, 2025
  • Flag Day 2025 June 15, 2025
  • Moron Trade And Tariffs – Economic Sabotage Or Just Stupid? May 4, 2025
  • My Global Normcore Men’s Clothing – Countries Of Origin May 2, 2025
  • What’s Going On With Shipping? Better Watch Sal April 30, 2025
  • Split Size Shoe Orders and Tariffs – Beating The Tax On My Feet April 15, 2025
  • 56 Hours In The Emergency Room – Suffering On A Mass Scale April 4, 2025
  • Truman Capote – Answered Prayers: Books That Killed Their Authors #7 February 2, 2025
  • The Last Weekend Of The United States January 18, 2025
  • Design For Disaster – The 1961 Bel Air Conflagration January 17, 2025
  • Franz Kafka – A Hunger Artist: Books That Killed Their Authors #6 January 6, 2025
  • The Twilight Zone Of Our Democracy – The Brand Is Upon Us December 5, 2024
  • Halloween Came From An Irish Hole In The Ground October 27, 2024
  • Who Was FDR’s FIRST Vice President? No Googling September 5, 2024
  • The Guano Islands Act August 18, 2024
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Books That Killed Their Authors #5 August 15, 2024
  • The 1934 Business Plot To Overthrow The U.S. Government August 12, 2024
  • The Index of Forbidden Books – The Original Banned Book List August 8, 2024
  • Jane Austen – Persuasion and Sanditon: Books That Killed Their Authors #4 August 5, 2024
  • When Your Emotional Support Animal Needs Your Emotional Support July 16, 2024
  • What If The Internet Had Never Been Invented? June 3, 2024
  • The Fried Breaded Pork Tenderloin Sandwich: Indiana’s Unofficial State Food May 16, 2024

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The official Massachusetts state website for SNAP benefits is now displaying an alert warning that tRUmp is “currently choosing not to issue November SNAP benefits that help you and many families put food on the table.”
The site also notes that people “may have your benefits cut starting in November because of changes Congressional Republicans and President Trump enacted in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill.’” https://www.mass.gov/snap-benefits-formerly-food-stamps

27 October 2025 @ 10:40 pm

Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"
https://substack.com/@aaronrupar/note/c-170668831

27 October 2025 @ 10:32 pm

Yet another one. This happened in MARCH and is apparently just now showing up as news.
Israeli-born Dallas Rabbi Who Pushed Fake Palestinian Rape Claims Arrested for Felony Child Molestation
https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/dallas-rabbi-who-pushed-fake-palestinian

27 October 2025 @ 10:29 pm

Every day there's more of this. It's even out pacing mass shootings.

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27 October 2025 @ 10:19 pm

What are all the Walmart and Amazon employees on SNAP going to eat? This should make for some interesting times at two of the nation’s largest employers of underpaid Americans.

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