Testosterone must run at peak levels on October 25th
This is Saint Crispin’s Day….
Also the day of the Battle of Agincourt (1415) were Shakespeare set this famous speech so well done by Kenneth Branagh in the film of “Henry V.”
It’s also the day of the Battle of Balaclava when the famous Light Brigade charged in 1854 and inspired Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem.
Yes, I know….my Liberal Arts Education and History Major are showing again….
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I’m fascinated by this story…
Once a History Major, always a History Major….
Another reason to pursue a Liberal Arts Education: You find lots of strange things fascinating and never get bored! You will also be really good at cocktail party conversations…
From Slate.com:
The bones found underneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, are “beyond reasonable doubt” those of King Richard III, experts at the University of Leicester announced today.
Richard III, as you might remember from the eponymous Shakespeare play, died in the last major battle of the War of the Roses in 1485, although his resting place remained largely a mystery. At least until now.
Why are the archaeologists so certain they’ve found their man? Well, for starters the skeleton’s wounds are consistent with accounts of the fight that killed the king. According to the New York Times, there were also other potential giveaways. The remains were of the right age—the king was 32 when he died—and showed signs of a diet rich in protein, something indicative of a privileged life at the time. There was also a curve to the spine consistent with scoliosis, said to give Richard his hunchback. Oh, and the bones were found at the exact spot that priest and historian John Rouse identified as the king’s final resting place way back in 1490.*
That was all well and good but not enough for a beyond-reasonable-doubt conclusion. That came only after experts got the results of a recent DNA test that showed samples taken from the skeleton matched up with those taken from two known descendants of the the House of Plantagenet, the royal family that ended its reign with Richard III’s death.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was 70 years ago today- December 7th, 1941. I’ve seen almost no mention of it on-line or in the news….
Almost 3,000 people died that day- just like on 9/11….
Makes you wonder if, in 70 years, one of the defining events of our era, will be a historical after thought as well…
Funny how history works and the world moves on…
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Uh, yes she did…
It’s so hard to post this without an outburst of profanity…
She was WRONG and she can’t even admit it.
Facts are facts and she doesn’t know hers.
She is an ignorant simpleton who wants all the media coverage she can get, but only on her own terms.
I can’t believe people take her seriously. Her being accepted as a “legitimate” candidate for President of the United States is just ridiculous. It makes the entire country look bad.
That sounds so much nicer than what I’m really thinking….
WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) — Sarah Palin says she didn’t mess up her history on Paul Revere.
The potential 2012 presidential candidate was in Boston on Thursday as part of her bus tour when she was asked about the Revolutionary War hero.
Palin said Revere “warned the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms.”
Palin, a paid Fox News contributor, told “Fox News Sunday” that she was correct. She says there were British soldiers in the area for years before Revere’s legendary ride, and that he was warning them, as well as his fellow colonists.
“Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that ‘hey, you’re not going to take American arms, you are not going to beat our own well-armed persons individual private militia that we have.'”
She blamed her previous answer on the media, saying it was a “gotcha question.”
The Paul Revere House’s website says that on April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Revere to ride to Lexington, Mass., to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.
via Sarah Palin On Paul Revere Ride: I Didn’t Get History Wrong (VIDEO).
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Very interesting article about the real origin of “Memorial Day” at the Institute for Southern Studies…
Shows South Carolina wasn’t always as demented as it is today….
Year in which former slaves in Charleston, S.C. held a funeral procession to honor Union soldiers who died in a local Confederate prison camp: 1865
Number of people who took part in the May 1 procession, called Decoration Day, held after the freedmen dug individual graves for the soldiers (in photo), who had been buried en masse: nearly 10,000
Number of African-American children who marched past the graves, strewing flowers and softly singing “John Brown’s Body” and “The Star-Spangled Banner”: 2,800
MORE: ISS – INSTITUTE INDEX: The Southern roots of Memorial Day.
Nice to see other folks thinking along the same lines as my personal thoughts in my earlier post about how bin Laden changed us….
I do hope we can all grow up now that the boogie man is dead….
From The Nation:
We can use the occasion of bin Laden’s death to grasp back for the moment when the world seemed simple, or we can turn away from that impulse. We can say that with his death, we return to the world as our adult eyes see it, shot through with suffering and complexity. We can feel compassion for the thousands of innocents who died by bin Laden’s hand as well as our own, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time in places like Bagram and Baghdad. We can remember that just because there is evil in the world that we are fighting—and bin Laden was a mass murderer and war criminal—that does not mean we are purely righteous. We can reject relativism and still embrace nuance. We can have the courage to speak and act like adults, to put away childish things, to once and for all banish the bad guys from our nightmares.
via After Osama bin Laden’s Death, An End to ‘Bad Guys’ | The Nation.
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I can’t believe he did this…
I thought everyone knew you wear your OBE Medal on you left lapel….
From the Daily Mail:
He rarely puts a step wrong in the style stakes.
But despite looking groomed to perfection and dapper in his Ralph Lauren morning suit, David Beckham had a very small slip-up today at the Royal Wedding.
The footballer arrived at Westminster Abbey this morning proudly wearing his OBE medal displayed – but unfortunately, David wore it on his right lapel.
via Royal Wedding: David Beckham’s last-minute OBE switch | Mail Online.
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Very interesting interview with Larry Kramer about the differences between the generations of Gay Men….
Hard as it is to believe, this generation really grew up in a different, safer, more accepting time …
Those of us who are older had a very different experience- and they have no idea what it was like during the AIDS Crisis or growing up when it was still, as Lord Alfred Douglas said, “The love that dare not speak its name”.
And Gay Men, like most Americans, don’t really care about or want to know their history….
Larry Kramer’s ground breaking play from the outbreak of the AIDS crisis opens on Broadway this week….
From Salon.com interview with Thomas Rogers:
Rogers: I saw a preview of the play last night with a friend. I think many of the ideas in the play will seem exotic and a little dated to a lot of young gay men.
Kramer: Like what?
Rogers: Like the idea of promiscuity as a political statement and that it would be treasonous or controversial for gay men to tell other gay men not to have sex, or to have sex with a condom. What do you think young people should take away from the play?
Kramer: It’s our history. We’re gay. This was part of our history. This was the most horrible thing the gay population ever lived through. And yet it also represented — later on, with ACT UP, and the getting of AIDS drugs — the most spectacular achievement the gay population ever had. We gays did that.
I don’t know why so many gay men don’t want to know their history. I don’t know why they turned their back on the older generation as if they don’t want to have anything to do with them. I would like us to get beyond that.
Rogers: But do you really think that lack of interest in history is particular to this generation?
Kramer: You tell me.
Rogers: Well, I’m 27, and I know that my formative images of gay life had nothing to do with AIDS. Ellen came out of the closet when I was in junior high and “Will & Grace” made gayness seem like a consumer identity more than anything else. Gayness wasn’t really linked with sickness is my mind, and so those early AIDS battles, I think, seem very alien to a lot of young people’s experiences.
Kramer: I don’t know. I could understand what you’re saying. Sometimes when I go to schools, kids say that they’re taught to be non-confrontational or non-participatory now, almost like it’s not cool to have opinions and express them, which is sad. I hope we’re coming out of all that.
MORE: The problem with gay men today – Interviews – Salon.com.
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Look at this and imagine the impact on civilization….
I came across this YouTube video on David Mixner’s site and he has some thoughts on it as well:
Lost in the 21st Century 
Chapter 56: Integration-Part 2: Negroes, Lesbians and Yankees, Oh My! | My Southern Gothic Life
New Post up on my other Blog…
Here is a brief excerpt and a link to the full post:
MORE: Chapter 56: Integration-Part 2: Negroes, Lesbians and Yankees, Oh My! | My Southern Gothic Life.
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