A 9/11 Thought: Foreign Attack vs. American Destruction
At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow?
Tag Archives: Lincoln
Join or Lai
I gotta hand it to Justine Lai. I may say that I love history… but she luuuuhhhves history. In her ongoing, mostly NSFW painting series “Join or Die,” Ms. Lai depicts herself having sex with each President of the United States, in chronological order. At the current time, the artist is enjoying a cigarette (so to speak) following her encounter with 18th president Ulysses S. Grant. Continue reading
Posted in America?, Arts & Entertainment, History
Tagged actors, Bill Clinton, comedy, feminism, Fresh Air, gender politics, George Washington, Lincoln, NSFW, sex, visual art
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Anybody Order a List?
When I was a kid I would read and re-read the two or three volumes then in circulation of The Book of Lists, a repository of trivia compiled by the producers of The People’s Almanac. Thus began my career as … Continue reading
Posted in America?, History, Language
Tagged censorship, comedians, comedy, George Carlin, George Washington, hypocrisy, ignorance, lies, Lincoln, lists, Mark Twain, movies, plugins
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Torturama
I never would have believed that I’d live to see the day when the United States government legislated torture. Now that I have, it makes me want to scream. Or rather, it makes me want to screed – but no … Continue reading
Posted in America?, History, Politics
Tagged (in)humanity, congress, conservatives, Dick Cheney, fear, George W. Bush, John McCain, Lincoln, Military Commissions Act, neocons, rants, torture, war crimes
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