Picking up from last Friday: Shameful Things 3 and 4: 3. Kidnapped Africans were property—bought, sold, and claimable—defined as “three-fifths” human, but only for census purposes.
Read the Rest!8 Shameful Things Our Founders Believed–I
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Read the Rest!Our Flabby Language VIII
Picking up from where we left off in Monday’s post, more minor outrages from yours truly.
Read the Rest!The Canary is Coughing
Mike Lofgren was mad as Hell and wasn’t going to take it anymore.
Read the Rest!Remembering Lisa & Stephen
Today, I remember my friend and colleague, Lisa J. Raines, and her husband, Stephen Push, who survives her.
Read the Rest!29 Tools to Get & Vote Smart
Picking up from last Friday’s post: How does one become an informed and engaged citizen-voter? Here are the rules I try to follow myself when gathering information:
Read the Rest!And, Here We Go
It’s on.
The national party conventions are over; the true believers are energized. Unleash Death by 30-Second Slanders to win enough votes from the 30% of “independent” registered voters who gag on politics to get to 270 in the Electoral College.
Read the Rest!Eugene & Barbara: Of, By & For the People
Being a student of American affairs, I had much to choose from in fashioning a suitable Labor Day remembrance—one that pays heed to both the history of and hope for working people, the skeleton, muscle, and sinew of our forward march.
Read the Rest!God Save the C.T.A.
As we prepare to observe the national holiday honoring the roles working men, women, and children have played in building our nation—which too many of us will spend doing everything but that—I’d like to offer a little prayer.
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