An enlightening interview with the GOP on why only attacking violent rhetoric is hateful.
It has come to symbolize the bittersweet moment when the clock strikes the New Year, when we mark time passing. It is a poem in Scots dialect, set to a Scots folk tune, and a lot of us don't...
"We want you all to know there will be no screening of any passengers today, or any other day for that matter."
There was a major gasp that went through the crowd laced with whispered variations of the popular question phrase .....What the?
Driving though the snow in a beat up Chevrolet,
Through the aisles we go, pushing people out the way......
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through DC,
Not a leader was crying, not even John B;
The tax cuts were hung by the wealthy with care,
In hopes that some trickle down soon would be there;
The Baggers were nestled all...
Chances are good that you've never heard of Cambridge, Ohio. It's a tiny hamlet located in eastern Ohio, near the West Virginia border, that happens to be my ancestral home. My maternal grandparents, along with relatives and fellow immigrants...
9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980------From the early Sixties in clubs in Germany and Liverpool, England, to his murder in New York City. From The Quarrymen to John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and a little stint with a group known as the “Beatles.”
Remember, enjoy and have a weekend of your choice.
Friday Music--Bring on the Horns!
In this interview, Loewen links the Civil War era to the later era known as the Nadir of Race Relations (1890-1940), and further, to the modern day Neo-Confederate movement, which tends to look amazingly like it's twin brother...the Tea Party.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Am I the only one that's not crazy here?
- Kanye West, November 23rd, Bowery Ballroom
In the solipsistic universe that Kanye West...
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