There is a book out:
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
I have never read her but I have seen her in documentaries and she is wonderful. She was talking about the book with Jon Stewart. Lincoln said "It is better to have your enemies in your tent pissing out than to have them outside pissing in". In another passage, she describes a letter between two civil war generals who were friends, and this is not a gay thing (If you want gay from that era, read Walt Whitman). Anyway, the one writes to the other "I cannot wait until we meet again by the lake, hold hands and engage in gentle intercourse".
In 2007 if I get an offer of gentle intercourse from another man, my response would begin "While I am certainly flattered....."
The famous line "It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all" was written by Tennyson regarding the death of a male friend.
No, he did not hang out with a steelworker, a guy in native headdress, a guy in leather chaps....
Thomas.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Denial
"I don't believe in Beatles "
- John Lennon
I am not talking about people with the wit and poetic talent of John Lennon! Denial is a great hobby these days for many people, and 3 major things come to mind:
The Holocaust
Nobody denies Pearl Harbour or the Yalta Conference, but from the very same conflict people deny something that was so immense that it would seem to me to be about as undeniable as the 2004 Tsunami. Hitler had the big lie and his modern followers, or bastard children, have the big denial. This has included the leader of Iran. Maybe some people in New York City should deny that Mohammed ever existed - oh, the Iranians would get quite the chuckle out of that - why don't we depict it in a cartoon!
Evolution
Another world leader who knows bupkes about world history is George W Bush. Acoording to him when it comes to Evolution, he says "The jury is still out". As comedian Lewis Black said "WHAT jury?. The jury from the scopes trail in the 1920s?". Religions such as Christianity are wonderful, amazing, complicated often very dangerous belief systems that people have spent life times studying. In complexity they kick the shit out of evolution. Here's evolution - sitting down folks? - "Things change over time". Boy, that ain't Thomas Aquinas or St. Paul! And why isn't George W Bush a Catholic? Because religions...um....evolve...over time.
Global Warming
Another world leader who knows jack-shit about world history is our own - Steven "W" Harper. He said since we can't predict the weather next week how can we possibly know anything about climate change? As Jon Stewart I think said "just because Venus is our sister planet does not mean we want IT'S CLIMATE".
At least the heartless bastards who took away Pluto's Planet standard do not deny it exists!!
How long will it be before people deny John Lennon was shot to death??
Thomas.
- John Lennon
I am not talking about people with the wit and poetic talent of John Lennon! Denial is a great hobby these days for many people, and 3 major things come to mind:
The Holocaust
Nobody denies Pearl Harbour or the Yalta Conference, but from the very same conflict people deny something that was so immense that it would seem to me to be about as undeniable as the 2004 Tsunami. Hitler had the big lie and his modern followers, or bastard children, have the big denial. This has included the leader of Iran. Maybe some people in New York City should deny that Mohammed ever existed - oh, the Iranians would get quite the chuckle out of that - why don't we depict it in a cartoon!
Evolution
Another world leader who knows bupkes about world history is George W Bush. Acoording to him when it comes to Evolution, he says "The jury is still out". As comedian Lewis Black said "WHAT jury?. The jury from the scopes trail in the 1920s?". Religions such as Christianity are wonderful, amazing, complicated often very dangerous belief systems that people have spent life times studying. In complexity they kick the shit out of evolution. Here's evolution - sitting down folks? - "Things change over time". Boy, that ain't Thomas Aquinas or St. Paul! And why isn't George W Bush a Catholic? Because religions...um....evolve...over time.
Global Warming
Another world leader who knows jack-shit about world history is our own - Steven "W" Harper. He said since we can't predict the weather next week how can we possibly know anything about climate change? As Jon Stewart I think said "just because Venus is our sister planet does not mean we want IT'S CLIMATE".
At least the heartless bastards who took away Pluto's Planet standard do not deny it exists!!
How long will it be before people deny John Lennon was shot to death??
Thomas.
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