“Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn’t give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful [...]
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March 8, 2010
When Everybody’s/Nobody’s Special: The Problem of Self-Esteem
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March 3, 2010
Mr. D’s History Bookshelf # 4: Rabble Rousers: 20 Women who Made a Difference
“In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they [...]
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March 9, 2010
This Day in History 3/9: The Supreme Court frees the Amistad Africans
I’m preparing a response to a statement by Sean Penn in yesterday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, in which he stated that certain reported should be jailed for criticizing Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez.
In the meantime, today we celebrate a moment in American history where people [...]
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