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ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER
Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger has died at 89.
A great obituary. I especially liked this line:
Young Arthur first attended public schools in Cambridge, but his parents lost faith in public education in his sophomore year after a civics teacher informed Arthur’s class that inhabitants of Albania were called Albinos and had white hair and pink eyes. He was shipped to the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
Goodness knows what his parents would have done in response to today’s sewer masquarading as an education system.
freddy’s coming out from under the camouflage.
Heads down, people! Avert your eyes from the Wrath of Andrea!Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 01 at 03:46 AM • permalinkPoor Freddy.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. Think i’ll have another drink.
Posted by spatchcock on 2007 03 01 at 04:00 AM • permalink#13 Francis H - I confess that I’ve never, to my recollection, read a word of Schlesinger, so I’ve no strong opinions on him. Condolences to family, of course.
Persons such as ‘freddy’ are sad idiots. If he wanted to start a fight, he could have picked a better thread for it.
Posted by spatchcock on 2007 03 01 at 04:16 AM • permalinkAgree completely with PW (#4). Schlesinger was a liberal who could actually argue his case based on experience and reasoned interpretation.
Posted by AlphaMikeFoxtrot on 2007 03 01 at 04:26 AM • permalinkO/T Freddys new poetry book has arrived. Poems by guantanimo inmates. No word if Hicks has one in though.
Put out by one of their lawyers to “show their humanity”
“Daisycutters by Mahmood” (daffodils)
“I wandered lonely as a goat,
Which floats on high after tripping IED’s
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host, of well armed Kaffir
Beside the tank, beneath humvees
I put up my hands and waved them in the breeze.”Apologies to William Wordsworth.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 01 at 04:29 AM • permalinkOh my, Freddy, you are such a sophisticated shit head. I wonder why you do not write for the NY Times, considering your obvious wit and panache.
Posted by Go Canucks on 2007 03 01 at 04:44 AM • permalinkMore on the lawyer/compiler of that poetry book. What a slimy little foreskin he is…
Cry me a river.A Money quote, “Sometimes we hear even more serious accusations, such as Qurans being thrown to the floor, stepped on and even wrapped in an Israeli flag, all with the obvious intent of antagonizing the detainees.”
His Uni site,
Anus eyes warning.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 01 at 04:47 AM • permalinkO/T
Rudd details his meeting with WA Labor crook and ex-premier, Brian Burke.
“He shoved his thumb up my rectum, its an old wharfies handshake.”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1860706.htm
Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 03 01 at 05:28 AM • permalink“Another of our clients described a female soldier who interrogated him while she was wearing a tight t-shirt.”
Oh, the huge manatee!
http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7415
Posted by spatchcock on 2007 03 01 at 05:32 AM • permalinkO/T
Must be close to an election.11 million in cash,guns,luxury cars and drugs seized in raid by M.E crime squad. Very next story,Police to crack down on street hoons and their cars.
Watching Iemma reminded me of Ken Bockman on the simpsons…
“thats right hoons,we are coming after you”
and cut ,signal out Mr Iemma
“good,that should hold the little S.O.Bs for a while”
Author of stuff you never read in the New York Times. Now presumably boring St. Peter to death. ``Jesus, can I get rid of this guy?’‘
He never, as far as I know, wrote anything outrageaous. He just outlasted your patience and won that way, or maybe lost, you didn’t care. Who knows what liberals are up to.
#1 freddy -
Here comes an avalanche of hypocrisy.
Hmmm. I tried looking up the definition of “hypocrisy” on an on-line dictionary and all I got was a picture of Al Gore in front of his 10,000 sq ft home and Hollywood stars preaching about the need to sacrifice to combat global warming before leaving the scene in their limos.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 03 01 at 05:50 AM • permalinkWho will you be tomorrow, freddy? franklin or
phineas? Sorry, but you don’t have brains enough to be the cat.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 01 at 06:09 AM • permalinkI’ve deleted freddy’s comments from this thread. He is also banned.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 01 at 07:33 AM • permalink“Would it have been better for me not to have met with Mr Burke had I known what Mr Burke was up to at the time? Of course.”
Brian was a convicted criminal and ringleader of WA Inc. This information dated back way before his meetings with Rudd in 2005.
Rudd had to have known about that. Burke has been a mover and shaker in the ALP in WA since he got out of the clink and that’s why Rudd met with him.
One of the biggest scams of WA Inc was the licencing of a petrochemical plant. The WA government issued the licence to Laurie Connell and his mates. When they got into financial difficulty, the WA government of which Burke was the Premier bought the licence back for $1.3 billion.
Nice return for a piece of paper with some inc - oops - ink on it.
Rudd had to know that history and the sort of person he was lunching with. At the very least he has shown an appalling lack of judgement for someone who aspires to lead the country.
A Money quote, “Sometimes we hear even more serious accusations, such as Qurans being thrown to the floor, stepped on and even wrapped in an Israeli flag, all with the obvious intent of antagonizing the detainees.”
My response would be, “it’s a book, get over it.”
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 03 01 at 08:59 AM • permalink...but his parents lost faith in public education in his sophomore year after a civics teacher informed Arthur’s class that inhabitants of Albania were called Albinos and had white hair and pink eyes.
And today that teacher is known as Cornell West…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 01 at 10:53 AM • permalinkBut but but Andrea…Freddy is a movie star.
Did anyone get his autograph?
Have no idea who the hell Freddy is, will have to look through comments.
Does little Freddy want some hypocracy? I’ll give him some.
It’s public school teachers sending their kids to private schools while giving funds to an organization that supports a political party that fights school choice to the death all for the sake of political power.
Although I wouldn’t really call it hypocracy-I’d call it murder. But you care.
Considering Mr. Schlesinger’s background, it’s difficult to see how he could have grown into anything other than he was. I never could understand how he could have known the Kennedy’s so intimately and so well and still have been so very admiring of them. Yet, he was a classical liberal in the Daniel Patrick Moynihan mold and I respect him for that. An era is passing. RIP
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 01 at 02:45 PM • permalinkOh, yeah, El Cid, there’s that Freddy too.
This is the one I had in mind.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 01 at 04:18 PM • permalinkSchlesinger was noted for concocting a “poll” every 3 or 4 years where he would ask “academics” who were the greatest U.S. Presidents. Surprisingly enough, Kennedy would always come out in the top 3, even though JFK never accomplished anything noteworthy (aside from calling the Soviet bluff during the Cuban missle crisis).
Who’s going to perpetuate the fable now?
Posted by bill schumm on 2007 03 01 at 04:34 PM • permalinkI never though much of Schelsinger as a historian. He prostituted himself to the Kennedys in the early sixties and ever afterwards set himself up as High Priest of Camelot, Keeper of the Holy Flame. A fine hagiographer of that vile family and their abominable achievements, but a hopelessly compromised historian. He turned material that could have been better used by H.P. Lovecraft into a false and hollow icon of tarnished virtue.
Well, maybe with his passing the last vestige of the Camelot myth has also gone. By by, Arthur, let’s hope the afterlife isn’t too stringent about academic integrity.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 03 02 at 12:53 AM • permalink
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I did not agree with his politics, but I will defend his right to be history to the death.