Author: Serene Sargent
I make jewelry and try to read everything on the US Civil War and Reconstruction that comes out, (thereby knowing many smart people.) I know a bit of law, care about Beatles historiography and love the Nagras. Jane Austen whispered her Emma secrets to me across many miles and 200 years. ✨ My father was Bill Sargent, the Pay Per View Beatles guy. #DYRBRY
Foner Funny – Prof Foner on Delaware – more random musing
༺ Dr. Foner’s accidental funny: ٠Delaware Couldn’t Secede٠ Version (Civil War and Reconstruction I) ༻
“So, here it’s really martial law, almost, which is holding, which is getting, making sure that Maryland stays in the Union. And of course, if Maryland stays in the Union, there’s not much chance of Delaware leaving, because Delaware is just a tiny, little place stuck over in the corner.”
“Is anybody here from Delaware?”
[Silence from class. No one is claiming Delaware.]
“I don’t mean to say anything bad about Delaware.”
[Silence solidifies.]
“I don’t really like Delaware much…”
If I would have known Noam said this I wouldn’t have had to make my case so strongly
The President has about as much control as the Queen of England It’s How We Play Chess, right?
Dr. Cornell West on James Baldwin, Bernie Sanders and the youth
Oh, and of course, the Blues.
NOAM CHOMSKY: the 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman; 1988 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine Narrated by Amy Goodman sounding cooler than the Cheshire Cat Genius animation by Pierangelo Pirak Produced by A Listening PostA great investment of 4 minutes and 46 seconds
Nazis Make a Lot of Sense – Military Theory Part II
We need brute force to keep our drones. We certainly cannot lose them to the enemy. For our drones we need Germany. We are not leaving Germany to chance. Oh, say, you know who’s good at that? Nazis. Yesterday’s forward.com article written by Lili Bayer was featured on today’s Democracy Now! and Forward reporter Larry Cohler-Esses made a surprisingly devastating case that Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s “chief counter-terrorism consultant,” is…
How We Play Chess: version Well, We Had Really Better Be Getting On With It, Then
Now, back to the focus. Which is not the queen, not at first, not yet. She is not in space. She is on a board and there is not a single square she can not occupy. So we know all that. That’s cursory for now.
