After Zuckerberg referenced him, I liked the comment from Martin Luther King’s daughter when she said her father had been targeted by fake news and MLK they were limits on free speech when is known to be a lie.
When one initially gets media & public attention – being quoted, interviewed and applauded when you speak – it does create an exaggerated sense of one’s importance and one does tend to court the press, count the articles & believe the crowd, and take notice when it happens. For most of us that feeling fades when you realize you’re simply filler because the reporter didn’t have a bigger story to cover that day or you’re simply telling the crowd what they want to believe.
Warren is that dangerous type of scholar that wants to turn her ivory tower chimera into reality. If you want to see what a Warren presidency would mean, read[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/opinion/elizabeth-warren.html]
I understand why Lisa is happy. With either Bernie or Betty as the candidate, the Democrat’s electoral vote count in 2020 would make Alf Landon look like a winner.
No, Columbus was not “just the worst”. He was simply a product of his times. He had far worse contemporaries – Hernán Cortés for example. And the good Christians of Europe burned thousands of women at the stake in the 1600s and 1700s because they were witches – but they too have a special day that is a federal holiday. Applying today’s mores to the past is a fool’s errand.
Our dog taught himself to ring the doorbell.