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Marriage is a religious term? Sure, the word can mean a religious ceremony, but to many people it has broader meaning for both relationships and...
Why? Marriage, among it's many meanings, is an intimate union of two people who love each other. What other word fits? If gays use the word...
You don't have to support it, just like I don't support people getting tattoos or riding loud Harleys or listening to today's popular "music." I...
Jackson has a foot fetish?
I don't think that's an ocean beach. It's on a lake.
So, um, Suzy was it? Yeah, I've got some buddies in the next room and I'm sure they'll pay you.
"Good beer, good fresh healthy food for all, homes and apartments for all that are well made, well designed, comfortable, durable and handsome;...
I'm not a Civil War guy in terms of reading about the war itself and the battles. I'm more interested in the causes and consequences and the...
So, they want to build self-teaching computers in a way that most users won't understand. What could go wrong? So It Begins: Darpa Sets Out...
Sure there is... long season, lots of travel, back-to-backs, family stresses, mental fatigue, etc. Even the best Jordan team lost two in a row...
While Jefferson was certainly familiar with Turgot, I think saying that Turgot was a major influence on Jefferson is a little much. Turgot is...
As I mentioned, Jefferson lived long enough and wrote so much that he reverses course on many, many issues throughout his life. To wit, Princeton...
As I noted earlier, there are many, many quotes from southerners on the cause of the Civil War. The major issue was slavery and southerners were...
Remember it? Hell, we're still living it.
That and Colonel of the Boston Militia, President of the Second Continental Congress, first governor of Massachusetts, President of the...
On par with Reader's Digest humor.
I see where you are going and I don't entirely disagree. However, your first sentence here is interesting. Southerners are allowed to be proud...
Seems an apt time for some Faulkner... "The past is never dead. It's not even past." --Requiem for a Nun [T]o the sheriff Lucas was just...
True. But when that pride manifests itself in a way that intentionally exalts slavery or Jim Crow or discrimination, it does become an issue.
The Civil War was complicated and any shorthanded post analyzing the cause (including this one) is doing the era a disservice. That said,...
