So begins "My neighbor found Lincoln’s hair in his basement. I found a mystery" by Matt Bai (WaPo).
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"In decades of covering campaigns, I’ve seen plenty of historical relics... But none of that prepared me for the morning last fall..."
"... when my dog was running around with her pack of neighborhood playmates, and my friend Ledge turned to me and asked a question so bizarre that for a moment I was sure I’d misheard him.
'Hey,' he said, 'did I tell you I have John Marshall’s gallstones?'... You can still visit Marshall’s house in Richmond, where any mention of a troubled urinary tract is conspicuously missing.
I suppose someone who lived in a normal city, maybe Akron or Omaha, would have nervously laughed off Ledge’s question and started talking to someone else. But in Washington, where we practice what Abraham Lincoln called our 'political religion,' we cling to creepy totems, proof that the Founding Fathers and their celebrated successors once walked among the living...."
So begins "My neighbor found Lincoln’s hair in his basement. I found a mystery" by Matt Bai (WaPo).
You'll have to read the story, but it ends: "All that remained of the world of Aunt Judy and her parents was an unbearably sad legacy, and it had come to rest in his basement, where the easiest thing to do was to look away. We’re all collectors of something, whether we choose to be or not."
So begins "My neighbor found Lincoln’s hair in his basement. I found a mystery" by Matt Bai (WaPo).
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Gallstones are not related to the urinary tract. Maybe that explains the omission.
Is that like having Schweddy balls?
Got a degree from Columbia. Thinks that gallstones occur in the urinary tract.
A perfect fit for the WaPo.
“Hey,' he said, 'did I tell you I have John Marshall’s gallstones?'... You can still visit Marshall’s house in Richmond, where any mention of a troubled urinary tract is conspicuously missing.”
Gallstones come from the gallbladder, not the kidneys.
I can't get behind the paywall to check for myself, but for those who can: Has any WaPo commenter told Matt Bai that gallstones don't form in the urinary tract?
Speaking of historical relics kept as creepy totems, WaPo. It is sure not kept for accurate reporting.
A secular religion. In the modern model, you will find the totems of baby hopes and dreams, and gender parts in faithfuls' closets.
Matt Bai got a story out of them for which he was presumably paid.
Now Ledge can throw the stupid things away. Or donate them to some museum that will likely throw them away for him.
(Slow News Day tag)
From the article: "How Ledge came to possess what appear to be Marshall’s gallstones (actually bladder stones, if we’re being technical), along with some other macabre American artifacts that I’ll get to in a moment, is a story of the histories we hold on to — and some we wish we could leave behind."
Don't let the gallstones/bladder stones be a stumbling block. It's accounted for in the article. I just didn't want to bother with this minor point. It's a very interesting article.
WaPo was not at all inaccurate. Ledge really did say "gallstones." That they were not actually gallstones is part of the article.
Paste the link into archive.is to read the article. It really is worth the effort. And quit all the kvetching about gallstones bladder stones... It's a terrific article.
Mary Magdalene’s skull is in the south of France.
From Jesus to Jagger during the Exile sessions?
John Marshall's gallstones?
Big deal. Meghan has Harry's balls. She carries them in her purse.
Wrong bladder, Buddy.
Lmafo
Sorry for throwing stones at the author.
These are people who sneer at churches that have St Anthony's tongue or pieces of the True Cross. They weep at touching the piano where John Lennon wrote "Imagine."
Well, King Charles wanted to be Camilla's tampon. This seems like a step up.
^^^ Assistant Village Idiot - Brilliant!
Yeah, this is a funny town. I look over my shoulder right now and see the house that William Marbury (of Marbury v. Madison) lived in. It's now the Ukrainian embassy. And if I walk down the street, I get to the "Exorcist stairs." But for me, the real history was that I'm next to the old Cellar Door, where, on July 27, 1978, "guitarists George Thorogood and the Nighthawks’ Jimmy Thackery crossed a busy Georgetown street and briefly switched places in each other’s bands during a raucous performance of “Madison Blues.”
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