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I really like this photo:
It's of the Chicago Philosophy Club in 1896. I found it while reading the Wikipedia article on pragmatism.
I really like this photo:
It's of the Chicago Philosophy Club in 1896. I found it while reading the Wikipedia article on pragmatism.
With the new Transformers movie out, I wanted to wax nostalgic for a while, so I rented the original from 1986—brimming with star talent—that most people are unaware of. For real: this movie starred Orson Welles, Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack, Judd Nelson and Eric Idle.
Redundant power sources? We don't need no steenkeeg power!
Didn't SixApart move LJ to a new datacenter a couple years ago to prevent this shit?
The declaration that we have always opposed the war is true or false, according as one may understand the term "oppose the war." If to say "the war was unnecessarily and unconstitutionally commenced by the President" be opposing the war, then [we] have very generally opposed it.... The marching an army into the midst of a peaceful... settlement, frightening the inhabitants away, leaving their growing crops and other property to destruction, to you may appear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking procedure; but it does not appear so to us.... But if, when the war had begun, and had become the cause of the country, the giving of our money and our blood, in common with yours, was support of the war, then it is not true that we have always opposed the war. With few individual exceptions, you have constantly had our votes here for all the necessary supplies....
Congressman Abraham Lincoln addressed a Democratic majority house regarding the war against Mexico for Texas on July 27, 1848, although he just as easily could have made the same address now. I recently read this when it was quoted in Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Why is this book not required reading yet? Maybe if it were we wouldn't be doomed to repeat the horrors of our past as often as we do.
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