Why don’t we just move New Years to September. It just feels right. I could actually get to a New Years eve party without having to wear my overcoat, pantyhose, and galoshes. Of course, we might keep the galoshes during hurricane season.
It’s that time of year again for September issues. [...]
When labor leader A. Philip Randolph, organized a special march in Washington, DC for “Jobs and Freedom” in 1963, I have no doubt Randolph made deliberate choices on the date — August 28– and the venue — the Lincoln Memorial — as organizers did on the program and selection of speakers.
On this day [...]
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one’s accusing Fox. All people are asking is who’s giving Fox the money for these stories.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
When the President shared his unfavorable opinion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission case during his January state-of-the-Union address (the US Supreme Court decided 5-4 in favor of Citizens United), he got a visible tisk-tisk from Chief Justice John Roberts for admonishing the Court, and some flack from the [...]
Once a year I pull out my VHS set of the 1981 miniseries Brideshead Revisited based [almost to the letter] on the 1945 novel by Evelyn Waugh. I have no idea why I love this series. Maybe it was the excellent writing, acting, costuming, setting and characters who would have absolutely nothing to [...]
This was one I missed when it came out. Before “freedom fries,” the last great butting of heads between the U.S. and the French was about [mais qui] wine: “Judgement of Paris.” Bottle Shock (2008) dramatizes how California wines from Napa and Sonoma earned their props in 1976–around the same time Alice [...]
Privitaization of social security is a non-starter for the President. Need a second opinion? Ask persons 50 and over whose pensions were tied up in company stock. This weekly was recorded to commemorate the 75th anniversary of social security.
Amendment 1 (adopted 1791)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacebly to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
– THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF [...]
TWO SHORT FILMS
Thursday, August 12th, 5:30
Join us for a low-key Summer get together featuring classy conversation and digital art projects. Arriving after 6pm? Call or text James at 202-413-4983 to be let into the building.
SPOOK™
Kenseth Armstead, excerpts from the project
In the summer of 1781, James Armistead Lafayette was the sneakiest man in America, whose [...]
Rev. Rob Hardies, senior minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC (my member church), sent this letter from Hiroshima via our church’s e-blast list. In 1947 Rev. A. Powell Davies, then senior minister of All Souls, was so moved by the devastation and impact of the atomic bomb dropped on the city [...]
