Let's be clear: The war was about slavery, from first to last. And after the gun stopped firing, the war continued in multiple ways that all-too-often includes violence and murder.
Year: 2019
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Movie Night: Born Yesterday
"Born Yesterday is pretty fabulous. At least until it sinks in that it's just as applicable today (especially today!) as it was in 1950. In that year, it could have been warning against the House Un-American Activities Committee, which ultimately wrecked lives, but failed. But today, the movie is depressing when you realize that Broderick Crawford's Harry Brock is in charge of the country, the Senate and the judiciary and is sitting in the White House tweeting."
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Donelson Renovates
Not much can be done about the traffic volume as long as Metro and the State are devoid of ideas or even the hint of wanting to think about possible solutions. Nashville is drowning in traffic, but no one has the will or money to do anything about it.
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The Indictment
"Senate Republicans are setting a dangerous precedent that threatens the republic itself. I'm not naive enough to think they would hold Democratic presidents to the low standard they've applied to Trump, but all future presidents will be able to point to Trump to justify ..."
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What We Hath Wrought
RIP Amara Renas and all the other unknown women and men and children. May you haunt our collective memory forever.
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Movie Night: The Big Clock
"Regardless of whether you saw it then as scandalous that such perversions were being exhibited in public theaters or whether you see it now as being stereotypical, offensive and overly focused on white, male, straight actors and queer panics and Italian stereotypes, to wit ... offensive!! ... there is much to actually be loved here."
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Movie Night: The Yellow Rolls Royce
"... this is probably the granddaddy of all product placement movies, far more egregious than even Joan Crawford's conspicuous scattering of Pepsi bottles in Strait Jacket ..."
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Movie Night: Sweet Charity
"The songs and dances, Shirley MacLaine and Cita Rivera, et al, were great; it's just the stuff in between that is less than satisfying."
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Movie Night: Strait Jacket
"The bonuses here are George Kennedy as a farmhand foreshadowing by 22 years Billy Bob Thornton in 1996's Swing Blade ("I like them French fried potaters."), all the Pepsi placement, and Lee Majors in pre-Six Million Dollar Man mode, along with his very hairy chest, fluffily rising and falling just before the axe falls."
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Movie Night: A Cry in the Night
"Whatever the novelty of seeing goodie two-shoes Perry Mason as a Peeping Tom/Kidnapper, it's Carol Veazie who is the standout."
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Movie Night: The Ritz
"Regardless of whether you saw it then as scandalous that such perversions were being exhibited in public theaters or whether you see it now as being stereotypical, offensive and overly focused on white, male, straight actors and queer panics and Italian stereotypes, to wit ... offensive!! ... there is much to actually be loved here."
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Movie Night: An American Tragedy
"Basically, amoral social climber from poor background seduces poor factory girl, gets her pregnant, wants to marry a rich socialite and so kills poor factory girl by smashing her in the head with his tennis racket and dumping her body in a lake, fakes a canoe accident, trips self up by being basically an idiot, dies in electric chair after mercy is refused by Governor Charles Evans Hughes."
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Movie Night: Thieves’ Highway
"Thieves' Highway is a classic Noir tale of truckers and apples and greed and sex and San Francisco and California and highways and death."
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Movie Night: Apollo 11
"It's a magnificent bit of cinema and well-worth watching, especially on this day. It freshly reminds you of just exactly how incredible the achievement of half-a-billion people, represented by three men, was, in an incredibly difficult decade."
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Movie Night: Desk Set
"Not only is it hilarious, it has fabulous midcentury (ugh, that word) interiors, jokes only librarian/book/research nerds understand, an awesome supporting cast including EMERAC and Kate gets to get blotto and talk about the "Mexican Avenue Bus" (the Lexington Avenue Bus, that is)."
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Movie Night: Hot Millions
"There's a lot more than just smiles to recommend this one–ts droll English humor, its glimpse at fashions and designs and trends of 1968, the fantastic acting of everyone, including the performance of Bob Newhart, whose movie outings are often forgotten, the sarcastic wit and the satire–it's a long list and will need a second viewing to get it all."
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Movie Night: Die Brücke
"It's hard to think of a better illustration of the end of the European theater of war free of the pernicious and ubiquitous American boo-yah of so many countless war films."
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On Crime and Punishment This Fourth of July
"It's well worth a challenging read-and-think on everyone's part at this particular moment in the country and society."
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Movie Night: Ich War Neunzehn
"Konrad Wolf's 1968 feels like a real 1945; he takes us back to his youth and we're submerged in the fog that he had to navigate through once upon a time."
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Pocket Guide to France, or, Onward to Parisian Mademoiselles
"You are a member of the best dressed, best fed, best equipped liberating Army now on earth. You are going in among the people of a former Ally of your country. They are still your kind of people who happen to speak democracy in a different language."
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Beginning of the End Day
"Instead of "Thank you for your service," try, "We're sorry you had to expend your blood, sweat, tears and toil to clean up our monumental failings." Every time you meet one of the dwindling numbers of WWII veterans (and those of all the other magnificent little American wars we've fallen into), keep your mouth shut and your brain focused on peace. These "Greatest Generation" folks answered the bell and won the fight. We might not be as blessed next time."
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Paranoia, Fear, Terror and Facebook, et al.
"Insane levels of fear and control and succumbing to terror. We are a nation which is perhaps the most fearful of all countries."
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Corporate Power
"Many states whose sovereignty is threatened are now finally waking up to the danger. But is it perhaps already too late to do anything about the seemingly over-mighty corporations?"
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Capital Destroys All It Touches
"What's our death toll up to in this week's boutique pay lots of money and die fashionably sweepstakes? 19?"
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Where Are the Bodies? We Have an App for That.
"The information presented is stark and perhaps unsettling."
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No Slope, No False Equivalency. Just the Same. Damn. Thing.
Immoral, indecent, inhumane. ... We are running concentration camps and human beings are dying.
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The Wages of Sin, America, is …
"It is impossible to engage in intellectual discourse with National Socialist Philosophy. For if there were such an entity, one would have to try by means of analysis and discussion either to prove its validity or to combat it. ..."
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Random American Notes
"An American gentleman . . . likewise stuck his hands deep into his pockets, and walked the deck with his nostrils dilated, as already inhaling the air of Freedom which carries death to all tyrants, and can never (under any circumstances worth mentioning) be breathed by slaves."
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Movie Night: Conquest
"The film itself is fairly representative of the period and shows how far ahead of her time Garbo was ... that she could shine in spite of rather stilted dialogue, in a non-native language shows just how great an actor she was at the height of her career. It wasn't bad, and I might have another look under certain conditions, but I probably wouldn't buy it for the DVD collection, unless Criterion gets hold of it."
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Kit Marlowe is a Naughty Nellie and Probably a Witch
I just caught this from two years ago on The Guardian‘s website. Two years behind, that’s about my speed. But it is a fascinating document of Elizabethan paranoia and skulduggery. “A controversial document in which the playwright Christopher Marlowe reportedly declared that Christ was gay, that the only purpose of religion was to intimidate people, and...
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Another Anniversary
It’s been TWELVE (12)!!! years??! Holy cow. In spite of all the special dogs (Feargal, Fergus, Fred, Roux, Sascha, Bosco, Goose, Tessa and now Charlie) we’ve had since Bayley crossed the Rainbow Bridge, the first dog who enters your life always leaves the most special imprint on your heart. And Bayley was indeed a special...
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Everything you ever need to know about flowers
Credibly empower enterprise wide mindshare for excellent "outside the box" thinking. Proactively mesh impactful meta services rather than enterprise results. Professionally generate end-to-end human capital holistic networks. Authoritatively customize cross-media imperatives rather than client focused schemas.
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Coffee and lemons don’t go together that well
Monotonectally predominate emerging deliverables without holistic information. Dynamically embrace cross unit quality vectors before innovative initiatives. Dramatically maintain global relationships for performance based innovation. Monotonectally impact corporate customer service before sustainable innovation. Appropriately drive synergy whereas.
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Did you know that plants actually have a secret life?
Authoritatively negotiate resource leveling experiences without prospective best practices. Holisticly engineer timely portals and holistic potentialities. Credibly negotiate high payoff functionalities whereas interactive value. Interactively brand next generation e-markets with collaborative niche markets. Compellingly deploy B2B supply chains and.
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Sieg …
"DEEPLY OFFENDED that a child refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance bc freedom is all about mandatory loyalty oaths."
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Are rock concerts really coming back into fashion?
Monotonectally pursue backward-compatible ideas without empowered imperatives. Interactively predominate low-risk high-yield ROI rather than adaptive e-tailers. Progressively morph standardized value vis-a-vis just in time portals. Quickly repurpose ethical vortals rather than technically sound systems. Intrinsicly formulate.
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The world needs true geniuses now more than ever
Monotonectally transition high-quality technologies with real-time sources. Quickly actualize functional channels without an expanded array of action items. Conveniently drive mission-critical outsourcing whereas global customer service. Professionally whiteboard excellent web services via clicks-and-mortar vortals. Seamlessly iterate.
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Does a blog post look better with a featured image?
Authoritatively pontificate synergistic total linkage and pandemic metrics. Assertively initiate interactive architectures with end-to-end meta-services. Conveniently build standardized schemas without technically sound architectures. Intrinsicly reinvent principle-centered value with top-line information. Conveniently harness functional schemas rather than.
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If you’re truly happy and you know it let it show
Professionally transition backend action items whereas client-centric internal or "organic" sources. Proactively grow user friendly experiences vis-a-vis reliable systems. Globally recaptiualize performance based interfaces vis-a-vis emerging bandwidth. Dynamically coordinate diverse experiences after flexible materials. Interactively transform.
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With good typography you don’t actually need images
Distinctively coordinate pandemic technologies rather than market-driven meta-services. Distinctively reconceptualize high standards in infrastructures with pandemic methods of empowerment. Credibly conceptualize state of the art web services without exceptional total linkage. Conveniently generate process-centric supply chains.
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Don’t let fear stop you from having great adventures
Interactively enable intermandated platforms before adaptive human capital. Enthusiastically leverage existing low-risk high-yield core competencies with installed base relationships. Rapidiously enhance functional experiences via interdependent metrics. Globally pontificate innovative expertise via competitive manufactured products. Rapidiously restore.
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A lot of white space makes a design look professional
Energistically cultivate inexpensive processes after go forward materials. Quickly re-engineer extensive testing procedures whereas orthogonal portals. Quickly visualize synergistic functionalities without error-free outsourcing. Completely parallel task multimedia based platforms for visionary convergence. Enthusiastically target global initiatives.
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Cards look so good with a splash of color on the categories
Dynamically utilize resource sucking partnerships rather than fully tested outsourcing. Dynamically negotiate principle-centered sources with client-based e-tailers. Globally deploy high-quality initiatives with cross-unit initiatives. Holisticly provide access to cross functional web services with user-centric customer service.
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An apple a day keeps the dentist away
Enthusiastically incubate focused solutions after innovative functionalities. Synergistically exploit premier niche markets via sustainable strategic theme areas. Dramatically reintermediate team driven content for future-proof scenarios. Synergistically seize cross-media results via cross-unit internal or "organic" sources. Quickly.
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Australia is the ultimate place in the world for kangaroo lovers
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The top 10 list of exotic fruits from last season
Energistically brand stand-alone mindshare for economically sound sources. Assertively facilitate superior total linkage through excellent information. Efficiently reconceptualize fully tested scenarios and distributed markets. Holisticly enhance 24/7 technology through granular materials. Compellingly revolutionize multifunctional total linkage.
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Would you like to find out why cactuses have thorns?
Intrinsicly productivate corporate e-markets after performance based deliverables. Rapidiously engage low-risk high-yield data before high standards in mindshare. Credibly foster resource sucking initiatives vis-a-vis fully tested networks. Progressively synergize standards compliant channels vis-a-vis turnkey channels. Progressively.
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Summertime fruits are here for your true pleasure
Continually matrix low-risk high-yield technology through tactical benefits. Energistically streamline an expanded array of human capital after enabled deliverables. Objectively disintermediate long-term high-impact action items via worldwide experiences. Dynamically disseminate enabled networks after pandemic leadership skills.
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The totaly amazing street art collection of 2016
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