Filed under: posts | Tags: America, Barack Obama, eloquence, ethics, everyday, race, sights & sounds, society, speech
Take 38 minutes out of your day, sit down in front of your computer, and listen.
Are you kidding me? His oratory is ridiculous – if he backs 20 percent of his dream with result, we’re gonna be fine. If he starts playing with the upper quartile, oh my, what a future this will be.
Enjoy, and ’tis all.
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Look, look, look! I added all these nifty button to the end of each (new) post. This is all thanks to Adam over at archGFX with a nice tutorial linked from the wordpress forums.
Anyhow, if any of ya’ll find this stuff I write interesting, please submit them to the social networking site you use. I’m too lazy to personally submit each post to digg to show how many diggs, but you can digg it all you want using the icon on the bottom. But, if you guys do submit something to digg, comment on it so I can get a button up. This should be interesting.
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Filed under: posts | Tags: Abagail Adams, art & lit, freedom, HBO, idealism, John Adams, politics, realism, school, self, society, Thomas Jefferson
Ok, so Jefferson was a schizophrenic about slavery. He seemed to be a product tried and true of Virginia, but his logical subconscious suffered for it. But, let’s not debate the morals of Jefferson, this piece is about “John Adams”
First, here’s some free advertising courtesy of HBO and youtube:
This seven-part miniseries from HBO is nothing short of fascinating and maybe even needed. The acting comes from a top-notch cast headed by Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as Abigail. Tom Wilkinson does a great job at portraying an eccentric Franklin.
More after the hop.
He who lets the world or his own portion of it choose his plan of life for him has no need of any other faculty than the ape like one of imitation
