Too Late, Trotsky

9 February 12

Everyone knows this commercial, right? It’s for Subway’s month-long promotion for Five Dollar Footlongs.

Here’s the thing. Abraham Lincoln and George Washington were both Presidents of the United States AND were born in February.

Ben Franklin was never a President. Nor does he appear on the five dollar bill. Nor was he born in February (January 17th, actually).

WHY IS HE IN THIS AD?

28 March 11

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GOP, Start Your Engines.

I’ll preface this article with a quote from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World Revisited:

“Can a campaign in favor of rationality be successful in the teeth of another and even more vigorous campaign in favor of irrationality?”

As the political pot sits simmering in Washington, all eyes are elsewhere, eagerly awaiting the announcement of Republican and Third-Party candidates tossing an early hat into the 2012 Presidential race.

17 May 10

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“ If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.

— John F. Kennedy

29 April 10

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purpleboots:

(via sensibleheartt)

27 April 10

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“ Well after the Berlin Wall fell, Vaclav Havel organized a conference on the Cold War in Prague attended by many of the leaders who had been in power when it ended. The program included a speech by Margaret Thatcher, who began by saying, “Let me be clear from the outset: Ronald Reagan and I won the Cold War.” [George H. W.] Bush recalled thinking, “What the hell [is she] talking about? Everybody gets a piece of this action. What about the guys [who sat] in jail because of their fight for freedom like Havel and Lech Walesa in this very room. How could [she] possibly [disregard] them in that way?” As he stewed over her braggadocio, former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, like a junior high school student during a stern teacher’s classroom lecture, passed Bush a note which read simply, “Is this woman nuts?

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Second Acts by Mark Updegrove

International politics. Just like junior high.

15 February 10

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thediamondmind:

Hair-Portraits of the presidents. From left to right: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama.

“Hair to the Chief”

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh