Welcome to the Ricochet Cafe

Ricochet Cafe is where you can get news, information, ideas, and amusement all for nothing. We are guaranteed 100% human generated, no AI is used except for purposes of mockery. No animals were harmed in the creation of this newsletter, but an artist was somewhat annoyed

This newsletter is mainly about Americana, history, notable personalities, trivia, strange historical occurrences, politics, culture, and the arts. Some of the future stories in the docket:

• How Donald Trump’s uncle was involved with the work of Nikola Tesla

• How West Orange, New Jersey, was almost Hollywood until Thomas Edison ruined it

• A super-fast guide to understanding Ukraine (so simple a politician could understand it)

• How much taxes do the rich actually pay in the United States? (It’s more than you think)

• Insight into how medical journals actually get the information they publish, and why the way they work helps Big Pharma (surprise!)

• How Bill Gates turned philanthropy into a business—and who are his parents, anyway?

  

• Are you smarter than AI? Join me and match wits with BARD

• And what about Subud? It may be one of the most important religious organizations nobody ever heard of

• Who killed Edgar Allan Poe? He was found half-dead outside a combination tavern and polling place on election day in a city he did not live in—and he was wearing somebody else’s clothes

Thanks from Ricochet Cafe.

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