Stored munitions detonated in Arsenal Hill, now Capitol Hills, at Salt Lake City. shattering massive amounts of glass in the city itself.
The munitions were a remnant of former stores that simply had not been removed.
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The best posts of the week of March 29, 2026.
King Donny's two or three day war is now over a month long and the US is losing, so he came on tv to say we're winning and it'll all be over soon.
It won't be.
Also this week Pam Bondi was fired by King Donny, which she richly deserved to be. We don't know who her replacement will be, but we can be assured it will be a sycophantic toady.
Pete Hegseth, fearing a rival, wiped out some officers from the Army.
UW chose a recently retired Army officers as its new President, a dubious choice in my view frankly as 30 years outside the state in the service of the government doesn't seem like a really good fit for the state.
And the Big Boy was touring.
Wednesday, March 29, 1911. The adoption of the M1911.
Pope Leo XIV on Palm Sunday
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Saturday, April 4, 2026
Railhead: UP 4014 "Big Boy", March, 2026.
Railhead: UP 4014 "Big Boy", March, 2026.: The great UP 4014 is making the rounds of the West/ UP 4014 Rounding the Corner Outside Rock River, WY 2026. MKTH Photo. This is my favorit...
UP 4014 "Big Boy", March, 2026.
The great UP 4014 is making the rounds of the West/
UP 4014 Rounding the Corner Outside Rock River, WY 2026. MKTH Photo.
This is my favorite engine. It's the third time I've seen it. Every time was accidental.
MKTH Photo.
MKTH Photo.
Big Boy UP4014 in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. MKTH photo.
MKTH photo.
MKTH Photo.
MKTH Photo.
New UW President chosen.
Today In Wyoming's History: April 2: 2026 Brig. Gen. Shane Reeves, currently the dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, was offered a contract by a vote of the UW Board of Trustees. He accepted.
He beat out finalist Kelly Crane, who has served as dean of the College of Agriculture, Life Sciences, and Natural Resources since 2024. Crane served UW Extension as an area educator and range specialist from 1994-2002. He was the principal consultant for Frontier Natural Resource Consulting until 2008, when he accepted the position of assistant professor/range extension specialist at the University of Idaho, which he held from 2008-2011. He came back to UW in 2011 as associate director for UW Extension. In 2019, he was appointed associate dean and director of UW Extension.
Reeves was a 1996 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. He went on to get a law degree from William and Mary in 2003 and is admitted to the Virginia bar. He's been serving as the Dean of the Military Academy. He's originally from Sweetwater County, but obviously hasn't lived there for 30 years.
Hmmm. . .
I think they made the wrong choice.
Anyhow, a news story sets out his early priorities.
Incoming University Of Wyoming President Wants To Build Bridges, Dissolve Drama
Thursday, April 4, 1946. Hirohito lucks out.
The Far Eastern Commission exempted Emperor Hirohito from war crime prosecution.
Richard C. Miller took a series of swimsuit photographs of Marilyn Monroe. In them, which because of copyright we will not post here, she appears of much more normal proportions than she would later, which is interesting for a variety of reasons we've already covered.
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Today In Wyoming's History: Updates for 2026.
Today In Wyoming's History: Updates for 2026.: January 31, 1946: United Flight 14 crashed into Elk Mountain. February 5, 1876. Update on Doc Holliday in Cheyenne. February 7, 1876. ...
Friday, April 3, 2026
CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 123rd Edition, The Holy Thursday Massacre
Trump sycophant Pam Bondi is out, her reputation solidified as a toady, and her legal career wrecked. Sycophant Todd Blanche is now in, at least temporarily.
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Former Fox News Commentator, current Secretary of Defense, right wing Evangelical Protestant radical Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of the Army Daniel P. Driscoll. I have no reason to believe that Driscoll is a shining beacon of light in the Trump Administration, but it's getting increasingly clear he doesn't get along with Hegseth and its becoming additionally clear the Army thinks the war against Iran is a mistake.
But that's not what we refer to.
Gen. Randy George, who is 61 years of age and highly decorated. 62 is the current Army retirement age, up from 60 when I was a Guardsman, and it's 64 for general officers.
Yesterday, the full-scale war between the Secretary of the Army Daniel P. Driscoll and the Secretary of Defense burst into the open with Hegseth firing Secretary of the Army loyalist and remaining solid generals including Army chief of staff, Gen. Randy George. Chief of chaplains, Maj. Gen. William Green, and the commanding general of Army Transformation and Training Command, David Hodne were also fired.
Gen. Hodne, age 56. Like George, he has the Combat Infantryman's Badge and an Air Assault Badge, as well as a master jump badge.
The reason for Hegseth's discontent is not openly known, although he's been at war with Driscoll for some time, but senior officers have been reportedly upset with Hegseth due to his monkeying with the promotion list. Recently two black and two female officers were reported removed from the list and there were comments that Trump would not wish to stand next to a black female officer.
Maj. Gen. William Green. It's harder to learn information about Green, but he served originally as an enlisted artilleryman and based on what data there is, he would be about 60.
If that is the reason, it's worse than the other potential reason, which is disagreement over the direction of the war. Notably, Maj. Gen. Green is also black, and so far I've seen no reason why he was removed. In light of Hegseth's membership in an Evangelical church that holds views that the overwhelming majority of Christians do not, there could certainly be other reaons.
Hegseth, as is well known, has consistently been a sort of reactionary force in the military, but since the war started he's been a zealot for a sort of Evangelical Protestant crusade. There's some evidence he may have helped talk Trump into the war, which he may see in that light.
He's also had consistent disputes with some of the military brass, while also taking on interesting social issue matters. For example, he just determined to prohibit chaplains from wearing their insignia of rank.
Rumor has it that Driscoll is targeted for firing. My guess is that Driscoll and Hegseth are both targets, with it being the case that one of them or the other will get the boot. Trump can't be happy with Hegseth, who likely promised a quick and easy victory which isn't happening and isn't going to.
But it doesn't end there. It's also being reliably reported that the increasingly desperate Trump may be considering firing Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Intelligence Chief Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel. I don't know anything about Chavez-DeRemer, but all the rest of these people should be fired.
Of course, Trump should be fried as he's bat shit crazy. With all of these people in the crosshairs, maybe they have some incentive to invoke the 25th Amendment.
If any of these firings are going to happen, they'll happen quickly.
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Monday, April 3, 1876. The Denver municipal election.
Denver’s 1876 municipal election shaped a fast-growing frontier city
This week in 1876: Democrats and Republicans contested city elections across the Colorado Territory
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Tuesday, March 28, 1876. The Haitō Edict.
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Thursday, April 2, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 122nd Edition, part two. Trouble with the Trump 'wimmins". Pam Bondi is fired.
Trump and sycophants, Bondi included. A prediction here is that Hegseth, to Trump's right, will be the next sycophant to be canned.
Lex Anteinternet: CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 122nd Edition. Trou...: News reports this morning hold that Trump is considering canning Pam Bondi for her poor handling, if that's what she's doing, of the...
News reports this morning hold that Trump is considering canning Pam Bondi for her poor handling, if that's what she's doing, of the Epstein matter, which just won't go away.
The weird thing is that if you hang out with kiddy diddlers, brag about checking out teenage models at a pageant in the buff, talk about grabbing, well you know, people start to think you might be a kiddy diddler.
Weird, eh?
And she's gone.
According to the Daily Mail, the British tabloid, which I would not regard as fully reliable, she begged not to be canned. She probably ought to regard it as a relief, given that she's now off the sinking ship.
It's my sincere hope that she never works as an attorney again. She's been an embarrassment to a profession that's far too often embarrassed. Her conduct has been reprehensible. Frankly, I doubt that she'll practice law, however. She'll probably lectures at some university, which seems to be the place all departed politicians go, and I'm certain that she'll work on a tell all book that condemns Trump, now that he's terminated her career.
Her reputation will never recover.
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122nd Edition. Trouble with the Trump 'wimmins", Hypocrisy in the Trump Administration. The disappearing and reappearing J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio.
CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist, 122nd Edition. Trouble with the Trump 'wimmins", Hypocrisy in the Trump Administration. The disappearing and reappearing J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio.
News reports this morning hold that Trump is considering canning Pam Bondi for her poor handling, if that's what she's doing, of the Epstein matter, which just won't go away.
The weird thing is that if you hang out with kiddy diddlers, brag about checking out teenage models at a pageant in the buff, talk about grabbing, well you know, people start to think you might be a kiddy diddler.
Weird, eh?
Anyhow, Trumps thinking of canning Bondi, and putting Lee Zeldin in her place. Zeldin is another Trump lawyer. He's currently the head of the EPA.
If Bondi departs, she'll be the second major Trump admin sycophant to be canned, Noem being the first, so both cannings will have been of women. A big difference, however, will be that Bondi is downright dangerous. If Trump turns on Bondi, she'll turn on him. Trump's advisors know that, but may be too afraid to tell him, and he's likely to dense to grasp that.
Noem, who turned out to be loathsome as the head of Homeland Security, won't be turning on Trump. . . yet. She's wait for him to be out of office, then she will. But she's been back in the news due to her husband showing up in photos cross dressing and wearing big fake boobs.
Frankly, Noem, and her husband are to be pitied for this, not condemned. But it does raise the interesting topic of hypocrisy in the Trump Administration. The administration is thick with Christian Nationalism and "conservative values", but Noem was widely rumored to he engaged in an extramarital affair with another Trump official, even carting him around on expensive junkets. and now it turns out that her husband had what I'd regard as a sexually centered mental illness, one which he apparently didn't adequately attempt to conceal, and perhaps didn't attempt to conceal at all. Trump himself is a serial polygamist and there are at least credible indicators that he may have fished in the shallow end of the pond, if not worse. Bondi didn't acknowledged abused women after ranting at Congress. Miller sounds like Himmler most of the time he speaks but is Jewish.
Perhaps we shouldn't be all that surprised. The Nazis were sort of the same way. There were affairs and of course one legendary homosexual scandal.
Sin makes you stupid, as Jimmy Akin warns us.
Since the war with Iran started J. D. Vance has been hard to find He's not out cheerleading the war like the nervous sounding Bessant or the administration like the "I took my family to Epstein Island but all I got was this T-shirt and I know absolutely nothing" Lutnick. Vance is widely believed to have leaked his opposition to the war right as it started.
Another nearly silent, but not quite silent, Administration figure is Marco Rubio, who may be the one administration figure who doesn't do the "Oh Donald, may I kiss your ass" routing at cabinet meetings. He hasn't been able to completely avoid the topic, but he's been pretty quiet Indeed, Rubio tends to be remarkably quiet and when he shows up he tends to look really uncomfortable. There's reason to believe that Rubio is the main backer on the administration's near invasion of Cuba and now that Trump is looking like a military dumbass, there's a real chance that Trump's ardor for military adventure may be over For that matter, while the current military has been very damaged by Trump, there are likely still enough real officers in the military to protest against start ing a second war when the current one isn't finished, and it's going to be at least a year, if not years, before that occurs. Marco may have lost his campaign slogan for 2028 of Viva Cuba Libre "I did that".
Rubio and Vance are somewhat unique in the Trump orbit as they're both real Catholics. Press Secretary Leavitt is apparently as well, although it sure doesn't show as she's a full time liar.
Rubio, when he speaks, tends to be pretending to be angry while saying Trump didn't say what he said, but what I'm going to say, even though Trump didn't say that camp.
Vance has come out with a book on his conversation to Catholicism which is a big off ramp from the Trump Administration and its Paul Whites and Franklin Grahams. It's a pretty clear signal that he's separating himself from the Evangelical far right fanatics and is beginning the process of separating himself from Trump. The book is likely to draw criticism but it's a really smart move, as he's essentially getting up from the Paul White Bee Dance table and walking over to the adults and sitting down with the sane and sober. He's going for the National Review/First Things crowd, not the NASCAR Country Pop gang. By the time 2028 rolls around, the folks who were admiring Franklin Graham's letters to Trump will have forgotten all about them, for the most, part, with some being on to new wives and affairs but assured that as they were once saved, they'll aways be.
Rubio likely knows this is what Vance is doing and he's going to have to do something himself What isn't clear The value of being a failed President's Secretary of State hasn't really been there since Kissinger managed to find it had one. Trump is looking worse as a President, indeed worse as a mammal, every day. My guess is that if Trump isn't removed via the 25th Amendment, he'll find he forgot to let the cat out prior to November and will leave the administration.
When he leaves he can do what Bondi will do, if fired, and what Vance can't do, while Vice President, that being writing a tell all book. Bondi's will be a bombshell, which is why Trump should not fire her if he's smart. Bondi's "I Know Where all the Bodies are Buried and Who All the Teenage Concubines Were" tell all will be something else. Rubio's "I Tried To Stop Trump From Being A Dumbass" book will be less salacious, but interesting Vance won't have a chance to write something like that before 2028.
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