a good citizen's cap

suicidewatch: The Vaselines

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:32:41 -0400

suicidewatch:

The Vaselines

RIP George

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:53:00 -0400

sunsetgun: Chet Baker in the bathtub. Howlers of the Dock....

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:23:45 -0500

sunsetgun:

Chet Baker in the bathtub. Howlers of the Dock. 1960.

The White House became, quite simply, a political dive.

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:20:00 -0500

Some choice words for Republican leadership in the 20s. Via Ferdinand Lundberg’s ride through America’s Sixty Families (1937)

Even in their superficial aspects the successive Republican Administrations (of Harding, Coolidge, Hoover) were suspect. They differed from each other only in the name of the White House occupant. Warren G. Harding was an amiable drunkard who left a legacy of scandal mere allusion to which constitutes a breach of good taste; Calvin Coolidge simply did what he was told by Andrew W. Mellon and by Dwight W. Morrow, his political godfather; Herbert Hoover was an erstwhile vendor and promoter of shady mining stocks who before the war had been reprehended by an English court for his role in a promotional swindle.

“Harding,” said Alice Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevclt, in a summary that must be considered scientifically exact, ”was not a bad man. He was just a slob.” Coolidge, according to Senator Medill McCormick, part owner of the rabidly Republican Chicago Tribune, was a plain ”boob.” He was so shunned, as Vice-President, that when he became Chief Executive he made Senator Frank B. Kellogg, the only man in Washington who had spoken a kind word to him, his Secretary of State.

The third of the Republican postwar Presidents (Hoover), in H. L. Mencken’s judiciously insulting phrase, was a “fat Coolidge,” sweatingly tremulous under the domination of Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan and Company, whom he invariably consulted over the long-distance telephone before ever announcing any decision of moment. Of Coolidge’s ignorance of common affairs, which was transcended only by Harding’s…

The exceptionally low caliber of the Coolidge mentality was never better illustrated than in 1921 when, as Vice-President, he wrote for a woman’s magazine a series of articles under the title, ”Enemies of the Republic: Are the Reds Stalking Our College Women?”

How Far We've Come

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 13:29:00 -0500

I feel like it’s kind of emasculating. — Google co-founder Sergey Brin on smartphones. Brin was promoting Google Glasses as the better (and more masculine) choice.

He thought the wearing of wrist watches by men to be effeminate. — About former Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds. If you think Scalia is an asshole, read about this guy.

sunsetgun: Albert Camus.

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 13:20:11 -0500

sunsetgun:

Albert Camus.

From sometime before 1907

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:03:00 -0500

From sometime before 1907

No compromise

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:48:14 -0500

No compromise

WILSON WINS November 6, 1912. Woodrow Wilson was elected...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:05:18 -0500

WILSON WINS

November 6, 1912.

Woodrow Wilson was elected President yesterday and Thomas R. Marshall Vice President by an Electoral majority which challenged comparison with the year in which Horace Greeley was defeated by Grant. Until now, that year has always been the standard comparison for disastrous defeats, but the downfall of the Republican Party this year runs a close second.

Electoral Votes: Wilson 409, Roosevelt 107, Taft 15.

Did not know this: Under Johnson, Dr. Hornig doubled the...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:55:13 -0500

Did not know this:

Under Johnson, Dr. Hornig doubled the budget of what is now the Office of Science and Technology Policy, which he led, and pushed for federal research in housing and transportation. He also helped kill a proposal to put giant mirrors into orbit over Vietnam to spotlight the enemy at night.

Donald Hornig, Last to See First A-Bomb, Dies at 92

Pictured above: The Trinity tower. “At 9 p.m., I climbed the 100-foot tower to the top, where I baby-sat the live bomb.”

The Wall Street Journal Feels Your Pain

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:00:06 -0500

via

Hitler & Gun Control

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:43:06 -0500

Alex Seitz-Wald interviews the historian Omer Bartov on the right-wing gun control meme entry under Hitler. His response cuts to the heart of it:

Bartov added that this misreading of history is not only intellectually dishonest, but also dangerous. “I happen to have been a combat soldier and officer in the Israeli Defense Forces and I know what these assault rifles can do,” he said in an email.

He continued: “Their assertion that they need these guns to protect themselves from the government — as supposedly the Jews would have done against the Hitler regime — means not only that they are innocent of any knowledge and understanding of the past, but also that they are consciously or not imbued with the type of fascist or Bolshevik thinking that they can turn against a democratically elected government, indeed turn their guns on it, just because they don’t like its policies, its ideology, or the color, race and origin of its leaders.”

By showing scenes of torture without taking any kind of moral...

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:31:58 -0500

By showing scenes of torture without taking any kind of moral (as opposed to tactical) stand on what we are seeing, Bigelow has made an amoral movie – which is, I would argue, an unconscionable approach to this material. I don’t understand those critics and commentators who denounce this film’s amorality and then go on to laud the movie anyway – as if a film’s moral stance, or lack of the same, was incidental to its achievement. Are we so cowed and wowed by cinematic technique that we can afford to lobotomize ourselves in this way? via

Lorem Ipsum Kennedy

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:42:42 -0500

Lorem Ipsum Kennedy

Break On Through (To The Other Side)

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:10:00 -0500

An artifact, post-presidential election, USA, 2012 AD:

I admit, I’m wearing my “To Hell With Them” attitude today. If the majority want socialism, let them have it. In the meantime, hubs & I have decided to double down on our family preparedness & networking…we’re starting grassroots, from the bottom up. Let the bureaucracy take care of its minions - my work will be at the face to face level. People who are suffering are going to suffer much worse before this is over…and their Hero Zero is NOT going to be there for them. So all you losers with the 30 Obamaphones, you’re gonna have to sell them for food because starting today, I’m bringing my canned goods to families I know, and church distributors I know…and I’ll be taking care of my OWN. No more handing over donations to nameless/faceless boxes and big organizations and just hoping a little bit makes its way past the bureaucratic skimming, to someone who really needs the help.

It’s also time to form tighter units within our community of truly like-minded folks. Instead of going to a movie or shopping at the mall, we’re organizing skill-sharing afternoons…everything from food storage to solar cooking to trauma first aid kits. And outings to the shooting range :) Next time we have a big storm, I hope all you O-bots remember your smoke signal training, cuz you’re not using MY emergency gear, and you’re not eating MY hot stew cooked over MY solar dish. And you better come packin’, cuz while you may be stealing from me via your regime, you’re gonna have to take my rice-n-beans by force. A lot of force. Bring it, you pansies. THERE IS NO FREE RIDE.

Cold? Yes. But if it’s the difference between saving a son/daughter of the republic or saving a socialist, I’ve made my choice. (And don’t think I’ll forget who had those blue signs in their yards…not for a minute.)

Hope

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 19:44:20 -0400

Hope

The end my friend. Amazing gallery here

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:17:00 -0400

The end my friend.

Amazing gallery here

The American Liberty League…a coalition of rich,...

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:09:10 -0400

The American Liberty League…a coalition of rich, conservative Democrats and top-level Republican businessmen chartered to “teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property.”

The orators its speakers’ bureau dispatched to business and service organizations throughout the country were the hard core of anti-New Deal political and ideological invective; and its individual members were the conduits for the spreading of the always vicious, often scurrilous, and usually ludicrous anti-Roosevelt gossip that was a lamentable feature of the middle 1930s.

Roosevelt was secretly Jewish (an entire faked genealogy was worked out for him, stemming back to a Colonel van Rosenfelt); his smile had been grafted onto his face by a plastic surgeon; he was insane, as evidenced by his manic laughter; he and his family were drunk all the time; he was having an affair with Frances Perkins; Mrs. Roosevelt was a Communist, and it was arranged that she would succeed him in the Presidency and turn the country over to Russia…

Never heard that one before. Forget Vince Foster or the Birthers, FDR was an insane drunk Jewish Communist with a fake fucking face!

From Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street by John Brooks.

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Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:33:00 -0400

Gore Vidal's Julian on Amazon

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:32:00 -0400

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Publisher: Little Brown & Co.

Date of Publication: 1964

Binding: hardback Edition: 3rd printing

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Description: Owner Ink Stamp/Worn and Soiled With Tears at Front Bottom Edge and Scotch Tape at Front Top Edge