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It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done. – Vincent Van Gogh Dawn. Take the dogs to the kennel. Bust out of house arrest. We headed for the first place anybody would think…
Is he crazy? No one has ever told me my doodles are good, not that I flash them around or anything. Gen likes them, but she also thinks vampire romances are literature and sings along to ‘Islands in the Stream.’ Her tastes are dubious. She’s not a reliable source. – Jules Barnard Meet Mr. Doodle, the artist from…
One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk. – Charles Baudelaire By my tenth glass of wine I started to wonder whether there was something wrong with my palate. Everyone else was marking the wine list with notes like “Pleasant…
Most labor historians today agree that craft unions created an aristocracy of skilled workers at the expense of the unskilled and semiskilled and, at the same time, retarded the further organization of American industry, thus, in the long run, adversely affecting all workers, skilled as well as unskilled. – Philip S. Foner The Steel Strike of…
The racist, misogynistic, imperialistic history of America is no reason not to love her. – Barker Ajax AKA Paper Money Riot The Paper Money Riot, or Exeter Rebellion, was an armed uprising in Exeter, New Hampshire, on September 20, 1786. Following the American Revolution, the nation, states, and many individuals were deeply in debt. The lack of specie and paper currency in circulation made…
Behind the perfection of a man’s style, must lie the passion of a man’s soul. – Oscar Wilde Originating as a series of smaller skirmishes, the Straw Hat Riot of 1922 was an uprising in New York City. The Riot spread due to men wearing straw hats past the unofficial date deemed socially acceptable, September 15. Background Straw hats had appeared…
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is. – Ellen DeGeneres As you might well expect, I am childless. Still getting calls about my student loans a half century after graduation, didn’t think I could afford offspring. And then there’s…
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill Let’s not give up on the entire 21st century yet. It’s easy to be pessimistic about the future, maybe partly because awful is easier to imagine — and kinda more exciting. You probably never saw “Death Race 2000,”…
“In the monthly payroll period ending August 31, 1897, for example, one manager of a Hazleton colliery paid all his miners $8,000 out of a $26,000 payroll. The rest was owed to the company for debts in the company store, for rents on the company houses, for fees deducted to pay the company doctor, and…
“I’m feeling good. I just don’t want to be doing — somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk, the great Resolute Desk, I think wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don’t know, somehow I don’t see it for myself. I just don’t. Maybe…