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Roderick John "Bobby" Wallace (November 4, 1873 – November 3, 1960) was a Major League Baseball infielder, pitcher, manager, umpire, and scout. Wallace claimed to have invented the continuous throwing motion as a shortstop.

Career
Wallace was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He made his major league debut in  as a starting pitcher with the Cleveland Spiders. After a 12–14 record in , Wallace played outfield and pitcher in . In , Wallace was an everyday player as he became the team's full-time third baseman, batted .335 and drove in 112 runs.

In , Wallace moved to the St. Louis Perfectos (renamed the Cardinals in ) and changed position to shortstop. He hit .295 with 108 RBI and 12 home runs (second in the league behind Buck Freeman's 25). Wallace changed teams again in , when he joined the St. Louis Browns.

His playing time began decreasing a decade later, with his last season as a regular coming in . Wallace played in just 55 games in , and never played that much again for the rest of his career. In July , he returned to the National League and the Cardinals, and played in just eight games that season. After batting .153 in 32 games in , Wallace retired with a .268 career batting average, 1059 runs, 34 home runs, 1121 RBI and 201 stolen bases.  He played his last game on September 2, 1918, at the age of 44 years and 312 days, making him the oldest shortstop to play in a regular-season game. The record was broken by Omar Vizquel on May 7, 2012.

Wallace was generally recognized as the AL's best shortstop from 1902 to 1911, when he served briefly as Browns player-manager. After moving from third to short, Wallace felt he'd found his place in the infield earning the nickname "Mr. Shortstop". He would also claim to have invented the continuous throwing motion, "As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.. I also noted that the old-time three-phase movement, fielding a ball, coming erect for a toss and throwing to first wouldn't do on certain hits with fast men…it was plain that the stop and toss had to be combined into a continuous movement."

He played for 25 seasons, and holds the record for the longest career by a player who never played in a World Series.

When his playing time diminished, Wallace managed and umpired. He managed the St. Louis Browns in  and  and the Cincinnati Reds during part of the  season. He compiled 62 wins and 154 losses for a .287 winning percentage as a major league manager. He also managed the minor league Wichita Witches in . He umpired in the American League in 1915, working 111 games. Upon retiring, he also became a scout.

Later life
Wallace was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in .

Wallace died on November 3, 1960, in Torrance, California, one day shy of his 87th birthday.

Managerial record

See also
List of Major League Baseball career hits leaders
List of Major League Baseball career triples leaders
List of Major League Baseball career runs scored leaders
List of Major League Baseball career runs batted in leaders
List of Major League Baseball career stolen bases leaders
List of Major League Baseball career games played leaders
List of Major League Baseball player-managers

References

External links

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There have been many rumors that Snapchat has agreed to a reverse Snapchat Update on February 20th, 2018. While this has been neither confirmed nor denied, there are some users that are concerned one of the best features will be removed – Streaks. Users are already complaining that it is much harder to keep up with Streaks with the latest Snapchat update as there is no longer a screen dedicated to chats. The Friends screen now combines chats with stories.
So, if we see an update on February 20th, 2018, will streaks disappear? Have we seen the last of Snapchat Streaks? Is this a feature that is going to be removed with future updates anyway?
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Understanding Intune Policies
By HTG UK | 4th June 2020
This blog post will address, and hopefully, demystify a topic I struggled with when first starting out with Intune or Endpoint Manager to use its new moniker, and that is the difference between Configuration, Compliance and Security Policies and in which scenarios to use them. So, let's dig into it, I'll cover each policy type in turn and in an order that should hopefully help tie the relationship between the policies together.
Configuration Policies
The best way to think of a Configuration Policy is as Intune's implementation of Group Policy, in fact, Microsoft has engineered Configuration Policies in such a way as to allow you to import and utilise ADMX files in the same way you would with a traditional Group Policy Object.
Configuration Policies are therefore what you would use to apply predefined settings to a user or device, such as defining a set homepage or other browser settings in IE and Edge (and even Chrome and other browsers, but that's for another blog!) or enforce a custom desktop wallpaper or lock screen behaviour in Windows 10 and like Group Policy Objects, Configuration Policies can be applied to a targeted set of users or devices using groups within Azure AD.
Security Policies or Security Baselines as they are interchangeably referred to are pre-configured Windows settings that help you apply a known group of settings and default values that are recommended by Microsoft, that is to say, when you create a security baseline, you're creating a template that consists of hundreds of individual Configuration Policies.
Microsoft routinely releases a new Security Baseline which is a thorough pre-defined set of policies covering all facets of the target technology, such as Windows 10, that can be quickly and easily deployed to secure your environment.
Note, Security Baseline are extremely exhaustive and I would advise caution over adding them without careful testing, they are, however, extremely useful at locking down an environment to a given standard quickly.
Compliance Policies are used to evaluate a device's compliance against a pre-defined baseline, such as the requirement for a device to be encrypted or to be within a defined minimum OS version.
Compliance Policies are a good tool for alerting on configuration drift, and when deployed alongside Conditional Access Policies can control what a device can and cannot access should it be deemed non-compliant, for example, non-compliant devices can be blocked from accessing corporately owned data.
Each policy type when individually deployed correctly can add great value in securing a plethora of OS and device types, however, when configured and deployed together they can not only enforce an entire collection of settings championed by Microsoft but also provide the assurance that should a device fall foul of the required compliance baseline, that device and the user using it would not be able to access and potentially, but inadvertently, open the company up to malicious exploit.
Finally, I'd highly recommend following Intune Training on YouTube where Steve and Adam (and others) share some great content on all things Intune.
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Of the following, with whom Akbar did not come into contact?
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B. Parsis
C. Buddhists
D. Christians
Akbar did not come into contact with Buddhist.
In the year 1582, Akbar took the momentous step of
A. Banning Sati
B. Removing Jaziya
C. Forming an army of jackals
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The Din-i Ilahi (lit. "Religion of God") was a syncretic religion propounded by the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1582 CE, intending to merge some of the elements of the religions of his empire, and thereby reconcile the differences that divided his subjects.
Hemu, whom Akbar defeated In the Second Battle of Panipat (1556), was
A. Minister of Sikandar Shah Suri
B. Minister of Muhammad Adil Shah
C. Ruler of Rewari
D. Prime Minister of Rana Udai Singh of Mewar
The Second Battle of Panipat was fought on November 5, 1556, between the forces of Hemu, the Hindu general and Chief Minister of Adil Shah Suri, and the army of the Mughal emperor, Akbar.
Mansabdari System was founded by Akbar. The Mansabdars were
A. military commanders
B. provincial governors
C. high civil and military officers
Appointment to the ranks of mansabdars was made by the emperor, usually on the recommendation of military leaders, provincial governors, or court officials.
Akbar had constructed several forts, which did not include the one of
A. Lahore
B. Agra
C. Allahabad
D. Red Fort
The fort is called Red Fort or Lal QiIa because it is made of red sandstone. The history of forts indicates that it was built between the year 1639-1648 by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in old Delhi.


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About Trish Kaufmann
I Buy CSA
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Primer Online
Civil War and Confederate Stamp and Postal History Articles and Presentations
By Patricia A. Kaufmann
This is primarily a small selection of the many articles written on my favorite subject, as well as resources from other places on the Web. With the advent of virtual presentations, I have begun to add some of these as well.
From a new collector: "I recently inherited a collection that had not been opened since the collector died in 1965. I am retired and was not a collector. I am now and am surprised at how much I enjoy it. There are thousands of stamps that I will probably not live to go through, so I am concentrating on the U.S. There is some Confederate postage. Searching the Scott Catalogue for the correct older stamp is scary as hell to a newby. And this is where the thanks comes in. I found your website. The extraordinary detail you provide has enabled me to correctly identify the (very common) stamps that are in the collection, and one NY counterfeit. It is great fun and I appreciate your work." BM
From an important and award-winning collector: "I realize you are knowledgeable about postal history, the CSA and it's history and all that. But the speed at which you can turn out high quality articles is amazing. It would take me a month of research and writing, etc. to do that article and it would not be as good as yours, not even close. Really amazing. You are talented and obviously the most important figure in Confederate postal history today. Great work that I think many people appreciate." DMK
From a respected writer and distinguished colleague, "Delighted to see that you have been selected to join the APS Writers Unit Hall of Fame. You add sparkle to the ranks. Not enough of our guild go beyond the facts and statistics about our favored bits of paper. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics of your work that you don't treat your subjects as flat bits of paper. You make them live, and I admire that. Well done!" JMH
From a new fan, "Thanks so much for your excellent writing and effective postings on the web. Great and imaginative work. When I saw some of your writing I knew there was hope for stamp and cover collectors." JSW
From another fellow writer and colleague,"You write non-fiction the way I wish most writers could / would: it reads like good, compelling fiction, but is fully informed and excellent history. You are among the best in philately (I can think of only one or two others I would so classify)." SMR
From a fan: "I really enjoy all of your articles. You make the hobby more fun, and interesting." CBO
About my 3-part series in Kelleher's on James Penfield, a Union prisoner of war who "toured" the South from prison to prison: Thank you for your wonderful article on the civil war experiences of James A. Penfield (Kelleher's Collectors Connections, 2016). As a genealogist and family historian, I really enjoyed being able to see so many original documents in the actual handwriting of members of a family I have been researching, and the sensitive way you breathed life into the people behind the the handwriting. It's sad that so many collectors, whether of dead letters, or dead relatives, never realize what they're missing by failing to look beyond the names, dates, and artifacts to try to understand the living, breathing people these things represent. GRG
Received regarding my column on "The Immortal 600": "I NEVER, and I mean NEVER EVER, write to an author. But, I could not ignore your GREAT article in the ASDA magazine, which I have now read four times, enjoying it more each time. Wow!!! I can think of no other philatelic item, that impressed me so much. I look for your column in the ASDA magazine, one of the main reasons, I subscribe." PAR
More kind words: "As I was reading your article in the Jan/Feb 2016 Kelleher's Collectors Connection, I thought where does she find these great items that tell such intriguing stories. Then it occurred to me that it might be that every cover/letter has a story to tell, if you are willing to do the research. So with that thought, I wanted to write you to thank you for putting in the time to research the covers and letters and then exquisitely write the articles. Much appreciated." KP
I have adored postal history since my late teens. I wrote almost from the very beginning. Postal history has great potential for collectors who are also fascinated by human studies. I love the stories told by the covers. By the time I am done researching a particular subject, I feel I personally know the families and the subject of my research. And like many authors who are asked to identify their favorite article, I usually say that my favorite is whichever one I am working on right now. One thing leads to another with covers and the most seemingly mundane example suddenly comes alive, speaking to us from the past.
One of my favorite quotes: We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning. Archibald MacLeish
But I am not just a social historian. I also enjoy "fly-speck philately" and researching the nuances of printing and mail routes. Most of my most serious research articles go in the Confederate Philatelist. The more general the magazine, the more I delve into the social aspects of the correspondence.
I am blessed to have been the recipient of numerous writing awards over the years and was inducted into the philatelic Writers' Hall of Fame of the American Philatelic Society Writers' Unit 30 in 2017, as well as winning four specific literature awards that year.
Provenance: Tracing Philatelic Ownership Through Owner and Expert Markings - extensive compendium of markings found on Confederate stamps and covers. An original article illustrating known markings and including detailed vignettes on the collectors, dealers and experts who produced them. Provenance helps establish pedigree and authenticity. Covers or stamps with demonstrable pedigree are more coveted than their mundane brethren. A cover that was once owned by Caspary, for example, really gets advanced collectors excited.
The Confederate Stamp Primer Online is a basic stamp by stamp guide for those who don't have access to classic philatelic literature on the subject or for those who do, but would like a quick online reference. You may view just the section in which you are interested or read it systematically from one page to the next. This primer deals only with stamps and not the vast area of postal history covered by The Rebel Post. Of particular note is the section at the bottom called "Trouble Spots," which deals with common problems encountered between stamp types and details on forgeries encountered. This includes the all-important Dates of Secession and CSA Admission
The Rebel Post - Collecting the Confederate Era
An overview of collecting the Confederate era, this article first appeared in Scott's Monthly Stamp Journal in April 1976, describing the the postal history that began when a handful of Southern states first seceded from the Union until the last shots of the War were fired. It is a fascinating look at the Confederate postal system which clearly demonstrates why specialists are so passionate about this area of collecting. For a more in depth article on the stamps of the Confederacy, see the "Confederate Stamp Primer Online."
The Madison, Florida Postmaster Provisionals - Anatomy of a Postal History Research Project
Due to the revolutionary nature of the material presented, this article appeared in both The American Philatelist and The Confederate Philatelist at the same time in February 2000 by joint cooperation of the editorial teams. The research resulted in the addition of a completely new section in the Scott Catalogue which immediately precedes the Confederate provisional section.
Sperati Confederate Forgeries - by Patricia A. Kaufmann, as printed in The Philatelic Book of (even more) Secrets, Volume 2, 2015 by Professional Stamp Experts
Virtual meetings, stamp shows, symposiums, and philatelic presentations are everywhere these days, particularly spurred on by the Covid-19 global pandemic. I've participated in a number of them and am glad to present some here for your viewing pleasure.
Conversations with Philatelists - Episode 28. December 14, 2020. I discuss the rebranding of the Civil War Philatelic Society, as well as my passion for Confederate postal history and how to get started in this area of philately. Charles Epting, of H.R. Harmer, and Michael Cortese, of Noble Spirit, interview philatelists around the world in this award winning program promoted by the American Philatelic Society. This program won the Philatelic Traders' Society 2020 Award for the Best Creative Concept.
Confederate States of America: Postal Innovation during the Civil War. October 30, 2020. A well-illustrated and narrated PowerPoint presentation from the Eleventh Posta History Symposium sponsored by the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, U.S. Philatelic Classics Society, American Philatelic Society, and American Philatelic Library. There is a question and answer session after the half-hour presentation.
APS Stamp Chat: Social and Historical Research Through Postal History. February 23, 2021, 3 to 4 p.m. EST - Zoom webinar. Register through this link. Panelists for this question and answer session are: Cheryl Ganz, Trish Kaufmann, Marjory Sente. Susanna Mills, assistant editor of The American Philatelist moderates. A video link will follow here after the presentation or you can join live.
Collectors Club of New York - December 1, 2021 - 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. ET
Virtual Presentation - Jenkins Express: Dodging the Yanks Across the Rappahannock A video link will follow here after the presentation or you can join live.
Stamp Collectors Quarterly (formerly Kelleher's Collectors Connection) is a stellar house organ that began in the fall of 2015. It is destined to become "the" philatelic house organ of all time, instantly surpassing the best of all prior works, such as the classic Herst's Outbursts. This slick publication is chock full of fascinating and utterly readable articles that will capture your undivided attention, no matter what you collect. The publication bears the distinctive touch of the premier philatelic editor of our time, Randy Neil. While I have no business association with Kelleher, I am thrilled to be a part of this wonderful endeavor. Links to the Kelleher site with online versions are shown here with permission. My columns on Confederates and the Civil War began with Volume 1, Number 2, although I sometimes stray into non-Confederate subjects as well.
N.B. I am having trouble uploading my columns from Kelleher, but columns are accessible from the full magazines published on the Kelleher website. Some of the links below are to my articles only and others are to the full magazine - just go to the index page, if the full issue. And enjoy the rest of the issues too.
Volume 6, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 2020) - Dodging Billy Yank along the Rappahannock, Part II (Jenkins Express)
Volume 6, Number 3 (3rd Quarter, 2020) - Dodging Billy Yank along the Rappahannock, Part I (Jenkins Express)
Volume 6, Number 1 (1st Quarter, 2020) - Boodshed Unavoidable: A Failed Civil War Peace Mission
Volume 5, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 2019) - Major (Dr.) Cornelius Boyle: Robert E. Lee's Secret Agent/Co-conspirator in the Lincoln Assassination
Volume 5, Number 3 (3nd Quarter, 2019) - President Jefferson Davis' Nephew Returns Home from Gettysburg
Volume 5, Number 1 (1st Quarter, 2019) - Hang Him from a Sour Apple Tree - A Battlefield Souvenir
Volume 4, Number 4 (4th Quarter 2018) - Dr. Alvinzi G. Thomas "...[with] the sword of Georgia in one hand and the sword of the Spirit in the other."
Volume 4, Number 3 (3rd Quarter 2018) - "The Civil War's Most Famous Scout" - Col. Lewis S. Payne
Volume 4, Number 2 (2nd Quarter 2018) - Illegal Use of Demonetized U.S. Envelope: The Fleet Correspondence
Volume 4, Number 1 (1st Quarter 2018) - From a Confederate Valentine to the Nancy Harts
Volume 3, Number 4 (4th Quarter, 2017) - Resilience in Hard Times: Adversity Covers
Volume 3, Number 3 (3rd Quarter, 2017) - Underground Code Name "Faithful"
Volume 3, Number 2 (2nd Quarter 2017) - Entreaty for Help from a Political Prisoner (pp. 30-39)
Volume 3, Number 1 (1st Quarter 2017) - A World Class Philatelic Library (pp. 11-20)
Volume 2, Number 6 (Nov-Dec 2016) - Lewis Carroll's "Wonderland" Postage Stamp-Case (pp. 9-18)
Volume 2, Number 5 (Sept-Oct 2016) - Prisoners-as-Shields and Other Horrors of War as Experienced by James A. Penfield (Part III), pp. 32-41
Volume 2, Number 4 (July-August 2016) - Prisoners-as-Shields and Other Horrors of War as Experienced by James A. Penfield (Part II), pp. 32-41
Volume 2, Number 3 (May-June 2016) - Prisoners-as-Shields and Other Horrors of War as Experienced by James A. Penfield (Part I), pp. 36-41
Volume 2, Number 2 (March-April 2016) - Confederate States of America Postmaster's Provisional to a Son of the Haitian Slave Revolution (pp. 8-13)
Volume 2, Number 1 (Jan-Feb 2016) - John Grimball - Present for the First Shots--And for Those at the End (pp. 8-22)
Volume 2, Number 2 (Nov-Dec 2015) - The Fascination with Confederate Postal History (pp. 26-31)
Volume 1, Number 1 (Oct-Nov 2015) - The seminal issue of this new house organ. No Confederate articles.
Kind words for my first column: "I feel so fortunate that I happened to have carried the Kelleher magazine with me on a recent train ride to the office and had time to read it cover to cover; what you've done is to marry Confederate postal history - which caught my eye the intriguing way you presented it - with U.S. history, which I have always wanted to better understand but have never been able to devote time to, to move me to finally push myself to dig deeper." BC
The American Philatelist (AP) is the official organ of the American Philatelic Society. The APS was founded in 1887 and is the world's largest collector organization with members in 110 countries. Founded in 1886, the APS is now in its third century of service to stamp collectors and postal historians. Click here to download an APS membership application in PDF format. With the April 2018 issue of the AP, I have become a regular contributor, although I have contributed occasional articles in prior decades, such as the research on the Madison, Florida, 3¢ postmasters' provisionals.
February 2021 AP - Researching Confederate States Stamps and Postal History
May 2020 AP - Imprinted Envelopes of the Confederate States
March 2020 AP - Clara Barton - Angel of the Battlefield and Founder of the American Red Cross
January 2020 AP - Confederate Prize Court Mail
May 2019 AP - How to Start Collecting the U.S. Civil War
February 2019 AP - Civil War Love Story Gave Rise to Unique 1861 Fort Valley, Georgia 5c on 3c Postmaster Provisional
April 2018 AP - Civil War Prize Court Mail: Profits and Bounty on the High Seas Led to Philatelic Treasures.
The Civil War Post is a monthly column I began writing with the January 2007 issue of this very special publication. Originally entitled the American Stamp Dealer & Collector, it became the American Stamp Collector & Dealer in 2020. It is a general interest column on Civil War topics, mostly Confederate (was titled "The Confederate Post" through 2017). With permission, I am archiving a portion of the column on this website in PDF files. I invite you to check out the ASDA's slick full-color monthly publication, which is chock full of general philatelic articles and the latest news with an emphasis on the human side of philately. This is not just a magazine for dealers. There is a wealth of collector related information on a wide variety of subjects and its features on the people, events and activities in our hobby is unprecedented. It's a professional magazine that has been sorely needed in the hobby for years. Check out the publication website for subscriptions and other information at www.americanstampdealer.com/
November-December 2020 - Wake Up and Smell the Coffee - Dangerous Slave Discontent
October 2020 - Circus Broadside Adversity Cover
July 2020 - Union Patriotic Label: "Taken near Pittsburg" and Used in the Confederacy
June 2020 - The Joy of New Listings
May 2020 - Philatelic Terminology: It's all in how you say it
April 2020 - Newly-Recorded Largest Block CSA-Y - Stone Y
February 2020 - Gruesome Train Accident Death
January 2020 - State Abbreviations Were Not the Same During the Civil War
November-December 2019 - Travails of a North Carolina Foot Soldier - James C. Zimmerman
October 2019 - Maj. Campbell Brown, Fort Warren Prisoner of War
July 2019 - Across-the-Lines Use - Confederate Tennessee into Union Missouri
June 2019 - "Jeff Davis and his piciune stamp" – Battlefield Souvenir
May 2019 - CSA Typographed Stamp Issues and Pretenders
April 2019 - 20c Bisect Pays 10c Eastbound Trans-Mississippi Rate
February 2019 - Stolen Mail at Salem Post Office
January 2019 - Dr. William Davis Ewing - Lynchburg, Va., Wayside Hospital
November-December 2018 - Patriotic Cover to Marie Rosa Haydel Andry
October 2018 - Mixed Franking Forwards Soldier's Mail from Howard's Grove Hospital
September 2018 - Grow My Money!
July 2018 - Provenance: Tracing Philatelic Ownership
June 2018 - Bank Security – Civil War Style
March 2018 - New Earliest-Recorded Jonesboro, Tenn., Postmaster's Provisional
February 2018 - Col. Henry H. Cumming; Father of the Augusta Canal
January 2018 - American Poet Sidney Lanier; A celebrated life cut short by a Civil War prison
November-December 2017 - The Earliest Listings of Confederate States Stamps
October 2017 - Eagle Machine Works
September 2017 - Texas Secession News from Castroville
July-August 2017 - Collecting Confederates on a Shoestring Budget
June 2017 - Found in a Vintage Book: Confederate Patriotic Cover
May 2017 - Lincoln and Grant's Last Meeting, Petersburg, Virginia, April 3, 1865 - the Thomas Wallace House
April 2017 - Charleston Orphan House
March 2017 - A Foreign Frenchman in South Louisiana
November-December 2016 - Keeping Up with the Times
October 2016 - 'What's Up' by Randy Neil - a Tribute to Trish Kaufmann
May 2016 - Governor Charles Clark Imprisoned for Threatening Insurrection
September 2015 - Confederate Mail to a Centuries Old French Winery
July-August 2015 - Confederate Stamp Alliances Celebrates 80th Anniversary in London at Europhilex 2015 plus "Will the Confederate Battle Flag Controversy Claim My Patriotics Exhibit, Too?" by Randolph P. Smith
June 2015 - Theodore B. Starr: Gilded Age Jeweler
May 2015 - Mrs. Foster Brutally Murdered with a Spike Maul
March 2015 - Largest Recorded Confederate Patriotic Sticker – Dapremont and Mallory
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October 2013 - The Sultana Disaster - the Worst Maritime Loss in American History
March 2012 - Dr. C. H. Dabbs - a Story with an Irish Twist
February 2012 - The Enchantress Affair
January 2012 - Surgeon Edmund Burke Haywood
November-December 2011 - A Confederate Cover with Stellar Provenance
September 2011 - The Lost Plate:New Acquisition of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum
July-August 2011 - Battlefield Condolence from Brig. Gen. Robert E. Rodes to Mrs. Webster
June 2011 - A Blue Umbrella and a Tall Beaver Hat - Major General "Extra Billy" Smith
May 2011 - Adversity Double Use to Signal Corps Balloonist on the CSS Palmetto State
April 2011 - Caf or Decaf?
February 2011 - Confederate Patriotic Enigma Valentine
January 2011 - Dr. General Collett Leventhorpe - England's Fighting Generals
November-December 2010 - Private Noah Deaton - One of Lee's Tarheels, Army of Northern Virginia
October 2010 - Unused Norfolk, Virginia 5¢ Postmaster Provisional Resurfaces
September 2010 - The Gregory Siblings - Spirited Scots
July-August 2010 - A final cover to Brigadier General James Johnston Pettigrew
June 2010 - Fort Stockton, Texas - in transit to destiny at Glorieta Pass
May 2010 - A scolding note from the CSAPOD Chief Clerk
April 2010 - The Tax Man Cometh - A War Tax Circular
March 2010 - "...any attempt to coerce seceding states would unite them all in one day."
February 2010 - Brig. Gen. John Wesley Frazer POW
January 2010 - North Carolina Depot - Clothing the Troops
November-December 2009 - A First Day Cover – Virginia Secedes April 17, 1861
October 2009 - Louisiana Relief Committee Mail
July-August 2009 - Brothers: Gen. John Hunt Morgan and Sergeant Frank Key Morgan
September 2009 - Lordy and Neptune…a tale of friendship and loyalty - N.B. Since this column was written, a family member wrote to correct one bit of information printed in the column. Neptune Sr. and Sukey died as slaves on Retreat Plantation prior to emancipation and were never granted the right to choose a last name. It was Neptune Jr. who chose the last name "Small" after emancipation.
June 2009 - Arnaud Eduard Préot (1818-1873) - An Ignominious End
April 2009 - The Immortal 600 - a tale of one of the war's most infamous events
March 2009 - James Wright Tracy, Confederate Surgeon
February 2009 - More Close Calls
January 2009 - Custodians for Future Generations
November-December 2008 - Civil War Cherokee Regiments - An Indian Nation Divided
October 2008 - Mail from Johnson's Island Union Prison
September 2008 - Brothers: Gen. John Hunt Morgan and Sergeant Frank Key Morgan
July-August 2008 - Regimental Surgeon Samuel Van Wyck/Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
June 2008 - Capt. John B. Castleman - Company "D", 2nd Kentucky Cavalry
May 2008 - Confederate Stamps as Battlefield Souvenirs
April 2008 - "First Word" - Randy Neil editorial featuring Trish Kaufmann
April 2008 - Dr. Edward G. Porcher - a victim of "the end of the medical Middle Ages"
March 2008 - Six Degrees of Separation - Dibble, Kohn, and Kaufmann
February 2008 - Wonderful Confederate Valentines!
January 2008 - Rediscovered Family History - Stephen A. Corker, POW
November-December 2007 - COMING: The new Confederate States Catalog
October 2007 - After Union mail service ended...a fascinating correspondence.
September 2007 - Contradictions of Research - Dr. S. S. Herrick
July-August 2007 - The Calhoun Legacy
June 2007 - "Hetty likes them that way: gilt edged with stars!"
May 2007 - Confederate letter with a military address and a sad statistic
April 2007 - A Mysterious Confederate Cipher Cover
March 2007 - Ordinary looking cover...to the lady who "danced herself to death"?
February 2007 - A Confederate Gem: The largest known block of CSA #8
January 2007 - Specialize in Confederates?
In this section are articles from a column I began for the Confederate Philatelist in 2013. I have had articles and columns of various sorts in this publication since 1970. In November 2020, the membership voted to change the name of the society to the CIVIL WAR PHILATELIC SOCIETY and the publication name has been changed to the Civil War Philatelist. It is sent quarterly to all members.
Kind words: "Your Part 2 essay in the Confederate Philatelist, which came just today, is an outstanding, urgently communicated reminder of an important truth about those who care about collectibles in any field of endeavor, but especially in the field of philately. I have taken away and to heart your admonition: '[We] all are custodians for future generations.' Thank you for the reminder." JV May 14, 2017
3rd Quarter, 2020 - Jenkins Express - A New Listing
2nd Quarter, 2020 - New Largest-Recorded Block of CSA 2-Y - Stone Y
2nd Quarter, 2020 - The Mail Pouch
1st Quarter, 2020 - Dialogue on Censuses and Provenance - Case Illustration: Madison, Florida
2nd Quarter, 2019 - Textile Marks Variety...not Laid Paper
2nd Quarter, 2019 - Mysterious Number "605" on Keatinge & Ball Printing
1st Quarter, 2019 - Brass Rules Revisited Plus, A Bonus Scratched-Plate Variety - Andersen and Kaufmann
1st Quarter, 2019 - Confederate Way Mail
2nd Quarter, 2018 - Northampton, Ms. Pretender - Massachusetts, not Mississippi
1st Quarter, 2018 - Lenoir Provisionals - A Newly Recognized Paper Variety
4th Quarter, 2017 - Gum--A Dilemma
3rd Quarter, 2017 - Using History to Authenticate Covers
2nd Quarter, 2017 - Custodians for Future Generations, Part 2
4th Quarter, 2016 - Confederate Mail Runner and Spy Lottie Moon Clark and a New Look at the Undelivered Camp Chase Letters - Winner of the best article for 2016.
3rd Quarter, 2016 - A Cartersville, Georgia, Provisional 'Across the Lines' Use
2nd Quarter, 2016 - Confederate Stamps and Covers as Battlefield Souvenirs
1st Quarter, 2016 - Analysis of a CSA 10 Frame Line Stamp
4th Quarter, 2015 - The Discredited Twin Crescents Variety
3rd Quarter, 2015 - Philatelic Intuition
2nd Quarter, 2015 - An Arkansas Post Adversity Cover Made from a Slave Census - Red Fork, Arkansas, New Listing
1st Quarter, 2015 - The Largest Recorded Multiple of a Confederate Patriotic Sticker - Winner of the best article for 2015.
4th Quarter, 2014 - A First Day Cover that Escaped the System
3rd Quarter, 2014 - Lost and Found: A Cover from Alder Brook, Arkansas
2nd Quarter, 2014 - The Athenaeum Prison at Wheeling, (West) Virginia
1st Quarter, 2014 - The Saltville, Virginia, Reversed 'DUE 10'
4th Quarter, 2013 - A Greensboro Postmaster Provisional Not Used for the Purpose Intended
3rd Quarter, 2013 - Hillyer Correspondence Delivers New Finds
2nd Quarter, 2013 - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing - Fake Frame Line Stamp
Selected Prior articles in The Confederate Philatelist
1st Quarter 2010 - New Postmasters' Provisional - Abingdon, Virginia Revalued 5 over 2¢ This article announces a new provisional find and the story of the Hannum family to whom it is addressed. It just goes to show that almost 150 years later, important new discoveries are still being made.
1st Quarter 2005 - William Weaver, Buffalo Forge and Paid Slave Labor New Earliest Known Use for Richmond Print - July 25, 1862* Some additional photos have been added to the online version for those not as well versed in Confederate postal history or just for the pleasure of those who are. It is a perfect example of why this period of history intrigues us. Initially intended to be written as a simple report of a new earliest known usage of the "Richmond Print", it evolved into a fascinating look at the people and history behind the correspondence, effectively putting the "history" into postal history. * N.B. This is no longer the earliest known use.
La Posta - The Journal of American Postal History - this wonderful magazine has been published since 1969. They publish informative research by the leading students of U.S. postal history as well as presenting discussions of timely topics and collecting tips. They also publish postal history reference books and monographs as e-books on CD. I began writing articles for them in the 4th quarter issue of 2012. I archive them here for your reading pleasure.
1st Quarter, 2021 - Smuggled Southern Mail to California, Murder, and Scandal
4th Quarter, 2020 - Per 'Wild Pigeon' - The Caroline Carson Correspondence
3rd Quarter, 2020 - Research Complications: The Family of Bolling Hall
2nd Quarter, 2020 - Civil War Old Point Comfort Postmarks are Union Uses, Not Confederate
4th Quarter, 2019 - Capt. Sally Tompkins: Confederate Cavalry Officer, Unassigned
3rd Quarter, 2019 - The New Earliest Recorded Use of a Confederate Patriotic Cover
2nd Quarter, 2019 - Confederate Military Courier Delivery from Lt. L.A. Bringier
1st Quarter, 2019 - Confederate Military Courier Delivery from Lt. L.A. Bringier
3rd Quarter, 2018 - Stephen Alpheastus Corker: Politics Run in the Family
1st Quarter, 2018 - Thomas Hardy: Forebearer of Military Royalty
4th Quarter, 2017 - Aarons Huggins--A Galvanized Yankee
3rd Quarter, 2017 - A 'Wanna-Be' Confederate Cover to Postmaster John Glymph
2nd Quarter, 2017 - "Breaking the Rules: A Civilian Flag of Truce Cover"
1st Quarter, 2017 - "It has to be true. I saw it on the Internet." The Warwick & Barksdale Mill 'Confederate Prison'
4th Quarter, 2016 - A Confederate Cover From Columbia (Gold) Mine, Georgia
3rd Quarter, 2016 - California Overland Mail to a Confederate Prisoner of War - Winner of the Helbock Prize for the best article in 2016
2nd Quarter, 2016 - A Virginia First Day of Independent Use
1st Quarter, 2016 - Frank Pope, CSA - From Colorado to Ole Miss to New York
4th Quarter, 2015 - Dr. Nathaniel Alpheus Pratt Jr and the CSA Nitre and Mining Bureau
3rd Quarter, 2015 - Confederate Stamp Alliances Celebrates 80th Anniversary at Europhilex 2015 in London
2nd Quarter, 2015 - The Confederate Paymaster's Property Becomes the National Colored Home
1st Quarter, 2015 - A Cover to a Sea Captain - The Victim of Mutiny and Murder
4th Quarter, 2014 - Paul Romaré: A Swedish Mariner Fights for the Confederacy and Leaves an African-American Legacy
3rd Quarter, 2014 - An Aristocratic Planter Goes to War
2nd Quarter, 2014 - A Black Jack Use from the Old Capitol Prison
1st Quarter, 2014 - Civil War Prize Court Evidence
4th Quarter, 2013 - A Talbotton, Georgia 10-cent Confederate Provisional Entire Revalued to 15-cents
3rd Quarter, 2013 - A Last Day Cover Sent by the Texas Word Family?
2nd Quarter, 2013 - U.S. Postage Used in the Confederacy from North Carolina
1st Quarter, 2013 - First Battalion Florida Special Cavalry - 'Munnerlyn's Cow Cavalry'
4th Quarter, 2012 - Producing a 21st Century Confederate Catalog
Other Civil War and Confederate Postal History Articles Online
If you have a Confederate article you'd like to see hosted on this site, please contact me.
Semi-Official Imprinted Envelopes of the C.S.A. Nitre and Mining Bureau - by Thomas Lera. Hosted on this site (see Tom's one frame exhibit on this topic on the exhibits page). Winner of The Confederate Philatelist Writer's Award in 2001.
U.S. Stamped Envelopes Used by the Confederate Post Office - by Thomas Lera. Hosted on this site. This is a slightly updated version of Tom's article that was published in 2009 in The Confederate Philatelist, 54(2): 25-30.
Arkansas Postal History - Dr. Bruce Roberts' 35 years of accumulated knowledge on the subject. This non-commercial site is dedicated to the accumulation and dissemination of information about the postal system in Arkansas and in Indian Territory. Bruce is the section editor for Arkansas in the 2012 CSA Catalog.
The Maury Mourning Covers - An Initial Census and Survey - written by mourning cover collector "Paul Bearer." A thorough treatment of the well-known correspondence of Major Richard Launcelot Maury.
Rebel Dollars and Documents, Yankee Stamps - by Michael Mahler. On October 1, 1862, a broad tax program designed by the United States Congress to offset the rising costs of the Union Civil War effort took effect, including a detailed schedule of documentary stamp taxes. In a stance at once consistent and paradoxical, the US government considered these taxes payable also in the eleven "rebellious states" otherwise known as the Confederate States of America. This presentation shows, via intact stamped documents, how those taxes were collected. Okay, so this isn't strictly Confederate, but it is a rich, fascinating and heretofore completely unrecognized subfield of US Civil War era fiscal history. This presentation includes illustrations of 50 documents stamped within the Occupied Confederacy, and 45 more stamped retroactively after the war, as well as a census of all recorded examples in each of these classes.
Confederate Postal History of Grenada, Mississippi - William S. Parks. Hosted on the Confederate Stamp Alliance website.
Dates of State Secession and their Admission to the Confederacy
Shown at left is the South Carolina secession flag
Trish Kaufmann shares her passion for Confederate States philately
Reprinted with permission Amos Media Co. / Linn's Stamp News. Copyright 2016 Amos Media Co., Sidney, OH 45365
To a Confederate Stamp - wonderful ode written and published in July 1893 - really gives one pause.
"Envelopes - Confederate" - a wonderful brief description on the creation of "adversity covers" directly from a young lady of the South
during the War.
Custodians for Future Generations is the subject of "The President's Prerogative" printed in the third quarter 2008 issue of The Confederate Philatelist. After reading this, one of the editors of the Scott Catalogue emailed to say, "Your PP column in the July-September issue of The Confederate Philatelist should be read far and wide, and not just by collectors of CSA material." Thus so encouraged, I share it here with you.
Russian-born novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was an unusual woman by any standard. She published the best sellers The Fountainhead in 1943 and Atlas Shrugged in 1957, as well as other titles. She was a champion of individualism and lectured on her philosophy of Objectivism. I was fascinated when I first read these works in my youth and, whether you agree with her or not, they are still thought provoking, stirring the brain cells and conversation. Ayn Rand's equally fascinating personal take on stamp collecting and why intelligent people pursue philately as a hobby. To me, it is perhaps the most insightful and accurate view of why philately engenders such passion in serious students.
Kaufmann Inducted into Writers' Hall of Fame - Along with Donna O'Keefe Houseman and two late philatelic luminaries, Trish was inducted into the 2017 Writers' Hall of Fame at APS StampShow 2017 in August.
Kaufmann Wins 2017 Helbock Prize - Trish took top honors in voting for the 2017 Richard W. Helbock Prize that is awarded for the best postal history article appearing in the previous year's La Posta: The Journal of American Postal History. The article is the rare intertwining of Civil War postal history with Western Mails. It is linked on these pages: California Overland Mail to a Confederate Prisoner of War
Profiles & Leaders | People who have moved the hobby forward - Trish Kaufmann is profiled in February 2014 issue of The American Stamp Dealer and Collector.
William H. Gross Stamp Gallery - Smithsonian National Postal Museum Council of Philatelists member and founding donor Trish Kaufmann's personal photo album from the Groundbreaking Ceremony on June 4, 2012 to the Founding Donors' Opening Gala on September 21, 2013.
Newly discovered Confederate provisionals sold for $40,000 by Rick Miller - Linn's Stamp News; March 3, 2008; page 16.
Rare Victoria provisionals discovered among fakes by Arthur R. von Reyn in The Texas Philatelist May-June 2008 - another somewhat more in depth version of the March 3, 2008 Linn's Stamp News story.
"Tireless" - First Word - The American Stamp Dealer and Collector - editorial by Randy Neil featuring Trish Kaufmann. April 2008
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How to Be Less Stupidly Poor in 2014
Broadly speaking, borrowing culture is considered to have been a major factor in the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, and less broadly speaking—that is to say, specifically regarding you—you're spending too much and not making enough, and moving...
by Robert Foster
January 6, 2014, 10:20pm
Photo by Chloe Orefice, graphic work by Sam Taylor
Hi folks, enjoying January? Of course you are, who doesn't enjoy this time of year, a whole calendar month where you're expected to replace your social life with an urge to Take A Long, Hard Look At Yourself™? As well you should.
The problem with you, you see, is that like much of your generation, you're treading water: trapped in an endless adolescence of drinking your wages, ignoring the future, and being a dick. And now your bank account looks like Dresden. Blame austerity if you like, blame the baby boomers for sucking up all the cash and turning it into golf courses, blame bankers, blame oligarchs, blame your mom, blame God, blame Dawkins, blame whoever, eventually you're gonna have to sort your financial situation out yourself or you'll be dead in a gutter by 45.
Broadly speaking, borrowing culture is considered to have been a major factor in the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, and less broadly speaking—that is to say, specifically regarding you—you're spending too much and not making enough, and moving forward, those are both things you should be aiming to do less of. Let's look at ways to improve your financial situation/fiscal responsibility issues in 2014.
Get Scared About the Future
GG Allin and Kurt Cobain lived fast and died young. But had they lived, GG would've done serious time for all the fucked up shit he did and Kurt Cobain would've made a duff record somewhere down the line and we'd probably all have turned on him. What I'm saying is unless you want to die (you don't), life has consequences. We're not going to be young and beautiful forever, and getting ready for those times is something we're going to have to do, because if you're totally realistic and pragmatic about it, your band's not going to happen. Steve Albini explained why in his essay The Problem with Music all the way back in the early 90s, before anyone even knew what an illegal download was.
What are you going to do instead? Um, I don't know… Get a job like your grandparents did? Learn a trade or get some professional qualifications, bone up on financial products, and get your shit together (more on all this later), so that your kids don't suffer for your youthful indiscretions? Slater in Dazed and Confused is a cool guy, but if he were real he'd be a 55-year-old deadbeat dad with a drinking problem now. Don't let that happen to you.
Before you get all job-search-y, let's get the ball rolling with stuff you can't weasel out of with excuses about resume-formatting dilemmas—stuff like drinking. Drinking a lot is like toppling money dominos: I'm not going to patronize you by doing the math, but beers, then food, then a cab to a secondary party location, then coke, then a cab home, then takeaway all the next day because you feel so shitty, then buying all your essentials from the expensive cornershop because you couldn't get it together to do it over the weekend, then etc, etc. You get me?
The funny thing about drinking is that it's not actually compulsory, and reining it in won't make you a social pariah or a dork (as long as you don't harp on about it like a self-righteous prick; vegans and new mothers take note). You can just skip a round or even skip a whole evening (weeknight drinking is a real career killer, you should get a hold on that before your boss realizes you're an unproductive empty husk every Friday). If you can't bear to be around your friends without shoving stuff in your mouth, you can go for a meal or something.
Buying Records Is an Exercise in Showing Off
The mask has slipped guys, the rest of us are onto how your "hobby" is really just a wilfully snobby pissing contest over who is the most super seriously into music and that there's almost no discernible difference when you play either vinyl or a decent quality MP3 through normal, bedroom-sized speakers. If you're spending 100 bucks a month on vinyl and you're still living like a student at 27, you're a fucking idiot. Argue about that statement in the comments section from your grubby rooms while we play Bushwick Bill via Spotify Premium on our laptop speakers in a crowded hotel room in Amsterdam on a super-fun mini-break we paid for by not spending all our money on making sure the people on Discogs.com thought we were 4real. (PS: Buying things is your hobby? Guys… get a real hobby!)
Photo author's own
Learn to Look at Your Bank Account
Nothing good ever came of not being sure how much money you have in your current account. Also, the kind of people who don't know tend to also be the kind of people who wilfully overestimate its contents. If you're one of those dopey optimists, you know full well that you're living in a world of unpaid rent, embarrassing cash request texts to family members, dodging people you owe money to, and at least three cancelled eBay accounts. I used to be that guy, and I know it's not a sustainable way of living. You need to be forced to look at your balance at least once a week so that you can prevent wild overspending. I know from experience that if you ask them to, you can get text alerts to prevent you from overspending. It'll change your life, I promise you. Also, nothing says: "I'm a douchebag who can't manage my own life" like not having internet banking in 2014. Are you struggling to change your sheets more than twice a year, too? C'man buddy, get it together. Quit Smoking, You Idiot
Smoking was super-cool when we were 16, but then so was a lot of stupid things that we've managed to leave behind. Now you're just spending $8 a day to annoy the non-smokers you're at a bar with by abandoning them every 20 minutes to stand on your own in the cold, so what's the point? At least junkies are getting high and eating ice cream (and, it should be noted, they're pretty resourceful when it comes to getting cash together). Smokers get none of that fun stuff, and they end up dying too. Have you seen this video? Jesus Christ.
In a hundred years, smoking is going to look as primitive and pointless as witch burning. Let's try to knock that shit on the head.
No One Ever Got Laid Because of a Pair of New Shoes
Can we all agree that boys like sneakers because they remind them of the colorful, chunky plastic toys of their childhood and girls like heels because they remind them of vaginas? Or maybe that's why they like bags, no one knows. Either way, we know for sure that no one of the opposite sex is remotely impressed by your fancy shoes, so maybe that's something you should get over?
I'm talking about shoes and sex but this could refer to any product that you've fetishised and collected over the years but now have no idea why. Most of that stuff will be rendered pointless as soon as you do anything like start a family, and if you're going to pretend that you see these things as an investment, you'd do better to save up that sneaker money and spend a few hundred bucks on fine wines, because rich Chinese show-offs care more about Henri Jayer Richebourg Grand Cru than DQM Air Max 90s. Another advantage to buying fine wines is that you would decrease your pathetic fucking manchild/annoying fucking princess vibes that the whole "shoe thing" gives off by 10,000 percent—which is great, because manchildren and princesses are the worst. Learn about wine-buying stuff here.
Photo by Jamie Taete Stop Pretending You're Going to go to the Gym
I know it's the New Year and everything, and you're definitely going to start going loads once you've recovered from NYE or whatever, but $45 a month for 20 minutes on a treadmill and a ton of woulda-couldas is one of the reasons the terrorists hate us. Besides, what do you need the gym for? If you're not trying to get swole and cut (which is kind of like the shoe thing: no one cares), then do your running outside, get some weights from Target and get some basic tips from those buff gents at Men's Fitness (who are presumably the only lifestyle journalists who have ever been on the administering end of a wedgie).
If you're not a doctor, a hedge fund guy, or a rich brat to begin with, the only way you're going to end up cash rich is if you do your own damn thing. You needn't quit your day job immediately or anything like that, just get your shit bubbling under in your own time, that way you can get going without worrying about borrowing money or filling out forms until you know it's for you. Look, you hate your day job, all you get out of it is enough money to fund your habit of being a human chemical toilet for two nights a week, and don't you want more from life than that?
I spoke to my pals at Vagabond, a London tattoo parlor that is only about 18 months old but already winning awards and fucking its projected profit margins up the arse (or something). They had this to say about starting your own thing:
"Take a risk, but have a backup plan for if it doesn't work out. If you're secure in a job but want to go solo, try testing your product/service any way you can in your spare time before making commitments. Do as much research as you can, especially into the boring stuff such as licensing, leases, insurance, etc, that way there's no nasty surprises further down the line. If you're going into business with someone else, make sure you can 100 percent trust them and they are equally committed to sharing the workload. Be aware that if you're young some people out there will take advantage of your inexperience, be prepared to stand your ground and don't let agents, councils, or solicitors mistreat you!"
Get Into the Habit of Saving
This is kind of what we've been leading to. If "the man" gets his way we're all going to be working til we're 70 unless we start being smart about money shit. I don't know about you, but I hate getting up before noon and I want to stop doing that as soon as I possibly can. A fun way to get to that point is to put aside some money each month, like what actual grownups and the people from your hometown who didn't go to college have been doing for years.
You should save regularly (aim for 5 percent of your income every month to go into some kind of account you can't easily get it out of) to build a credit rating so that when a mortgage lender checks up on you when you try to buy a house (AKA the most important thing to own), they can see you're not a totally irresponsible moron. This whole thing is about planning for the future and unless you're 15 and still into GG, that's something you probably want to have. Even just clicking here is a decent start.
Learn Code
Finally, a little heads up as to where the guaranteed cash is at right now. You know how no one really understands computers and yet they're pretty much the center of everything we do? Well, turns out that because when we were kids computers were for sociopaths and shut-ins, no one except those guys bothered to learn the computer languages with which apps and webpages were built, so those guys are in high demand and raking in the cash they need to fund their extended LARPing weekends and subscriptions to asian porn sites (lol jk, sorry Anonymous, please don't hack me). Now app devs are clearing an average of $70k a year; web developers enjoying an average day rate of $375.
Happily, it's not too late to jump on that dorky gravy train. This Guardian article from October outlines a ton of places you can go to learn all that stuff, and this is a perfectly reliable article telling you which codes are smart ones to learn moving forward. All this is totally within your reach if you ditch the Gen X slacker bullshit and knuckle down. Just think, with a little determination, hard work, and a huge helping of my advice nuggets, in a few short months you could go from an excellent example of why National Service should be reinstated to an actual functional, contributing, comfortable member of society! Yay! Let's hear it for 2014!
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Is It Possible For Last Man On Earth's Phil To Become A Decent Person?
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Phil Miller wasn't so great at being the last person on Earth, but it turns out that, when you throw other people into the mix, he's still not a winner. But as the situation in Tucson gets more complicated, Phil has to come to terms with the fact that he's not a very nice person. But can he change?
So Phil pretty much hates his life at this point. Melissa hates him and is totally lovey-dovey with Todd. He's still married to Carol, who sleeps with a sleep apnea mask and has taken to defacing his priceless paintings. (It's sacrilege, but her poodle on the Monet did make me smile. It's a shame no art restorers are living in Tucson, though.) The Grievance Board is covered in gripes about him. But in "The Do-Over" and "Pranks for Nothing," he figures he's due for a change.
Phil is convinced that, if he had another go at things, he would get it right. As he burns everything on Carol's shopping/honey-do list (Phil is still Tucson's resident god of destruction), he asks God for a second chance, a do-over. God (or rather, the show's writers) answer by delivering another car, this one containing two beautiful women: Gail (Mary Steenburgen) and Erica (Cleopatra Coleman). Naturally, they're delighted to see another human being. And naturally, Phil begins his relationship with them on a major lie. He tells them he's the only person in Tucson.
Phil is determined to seduce these two free-spirited ladies, but even as the (faux) last man on Earth, Phil manages to put them off. With one comment, he reduces them to their age (Gail) and race (Erica), and when he can't figure out how to wrench his foot from his mouth, he lies again. He tells them about his "dead" wife Carol and how he cared for her during a long and painful illness. That gets the women back on his side, at least momentarily.
What's incredible about Phil isn't how much he lies so much to everyone else; it's how much he lies to himself. Phil's more benevolent plots work out, but his more selfish, sinister ones never go well. Now sure, he couldn't have predicted Todd showing up to interrupt his attempted coitus with Melissa, but did he really think he could hide Gail and Erica and the cul-de-sac dwellers from each other?
When the others realize his deception, Phil tries out another lie, claiming that this was all a prank. No matter how unconvinced the others are, Phil stands by not just his latest lie — but even his earlier lie about his dead wife Carol. This earns him a shunning from the rest of the group and leaves Carol with a broken heart.
Carol is, for her part, pretty nasty to the newcomers, but it's easy to see why she's lashing out. It must suck when your husband wants to screw every woman left on Earth except for you.
She also has a pretty spectacular confrontation with Phil, where she pretends to be the ghost of his dead wife and unleashes a string of G-rated, animal-themed swears. ("You are nothing but a sewer rat, you dub donkey, just catting around like the cock of the walk! Well guess what, you skunk? You just sprayed the wrong dog.") I love you, Carol. I kind of wish this show was still just you and Phil.
Phil has another hilariously devious idea, and camouflages himself while eavesdropping on the others with a listening dish. (This makes for a great visual, and reminds me that The Last Man on Earth is particularly great at playing with slightly surreal humor.) But when he hears Melissa call him a pathological liar, something in his brain starts to click. He thinks of all the lies he's told over the course of the season — big lies and pointless, little lies. (Why the hell did he tell everyone he was lactose intolerant?) So he tries a fresh idea: the truth.
Phil confesses all of his lies at the fire pit, admitting that hiding Gail and Erica wasn't a prank, that he is deeply attracted to Melissa, that he didn't write "Fields of Gold" with Sting. (Man, Todd will believe just about anything.) But his biggest, saddest admission is for Carol: that they never should have gotten married in the first place. He acknowledges that he hurt her and he apologizes. Wow. Phil has a soul.
But actually, the biggest growth moment for Phil in this whole speech is when he tells the others, "Look, I don't expect this to change the way that any of you guys feel about me." Phil has been trying to smooth over every little rough patch with lies. And now that he has burned all of his relationships to the ground, all he has left is the truth.
He's pretty immediately rewarded for his walk on the honest side. Carol is initially wounded by his unburdening, but she shows up at the bar later with divorce papers and a smile. What's sort of funny is that, once Phil signs the papers, he and Carol briefly make out. Perhaps they're just accustomed to the physicality, but there's clearly still some chemistry between Phil and Carol.
So does this mean that Phil is turning over a new leaf? Perhaps not. He's turned over a lot of little leaves, but that hasn't necessarily made him a better person. But at least now he's not living under the weight of his lies. But with three episodes left in the season, he still has time to spin a few dozen more.


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