Archive for the 'history' Category
Vonnegut Quote
“About Stalin’s shuttered churches, and those in China today: Such suppression of religion was supposedly justified by Karl Marx’s statement that ‘religion is the opium of the people.’ Marx said that back in 1844, when opium and opium derivatives were the only effective painkillers anyone could take. Marx himself had taken them. He was [...]
Read More..>>Stabbed in the Back
Via Susie Madrak and Josh Marshall, we see the faint stirrings of the Battered Spouse Syndrome Corolary: Stabbed in the Back!
The U.S. is failing in Iraq. Bush’s policy was repudiated by the American people in the last election. And now America’s enemies and rivals are pressing their advantage, including Iran, Syria, [...]
McCain: Full of Shit, As Usual
“I would remind Senator (Hillary) Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush administration’s policies that the framework agreement her husband’s administration negotiated was a failure”
And McCain’s huggy-buddy’s policy of “Do Nothing And Hope China Does It For Us” has been a success? We have no military option at all as it stand for [...]
Bill Monroe: Remembering the Father of Bluegrass Music
Today would have been Bill Monroe’s 95th birthday.
For those of you who are not bluegrass freaks, Bill Monroe is widely seen as the Father of Bluegrass Music, which he presented to the Grand Ole Opry audience in the early 1940s.
Bluegrass music, contrary to popular belief, is not particularly old. True enough, Monroe based his [...]
Read More..>>Keith Olbermann
Keith Olbermann Speaks, You Listen.
This is a remarkable piece. Hat tip, obviously, to crooks and liars, which you’ll be visiting when you click the link.
Tom Paine Died Here.
Thomas Paine Died Here.
This site is awesome, and brings back very old memories, especially this exploration of hidden cemeteries.
Like my parents, I was born in New York City: we left by the time I was 3, when my father got a job at IBM. My grandparents on my mom’s side, Fred and Frieda, had [...]
Hitler, Not So Much
Bush is not Hitler.
While there is a certain religious fervor and hatred of the infidel other among many of his supporters, Bush and his backers, and by backers I mean those with the money, are not Nazis.
They are rather a variety of fascists, in which the interest of the corporation is the interest of the [...]
