Picking up from Friday: Shameful Things Six and Seven. 6. The people couldn’t be trusted to elect their state’s Senators.
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Picking up from Monday: Shameful Thing Five. 5. Neither were women equal to men.
Read the Rest!8 Shameful Things our Founders Believed–II
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!Xenodu: End of the Republic?
Will the outcome of the November 7 election foreordain the end of our Republic? In 2008, someone in my writers’ group dared me to do something “fantastical.”
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