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Theodore Roosevelt listed Ulysses S Grant as one of the greatest Americans in history (alongside Washington and Lincoln). This was said in 1900.

Only fifty-so years later, President Dwight Eisenhower would state that Robert E Lee was one of the greatest Americans of all time. 

This post is not an assassination of Lee or his character-- that’s not the point of this. What I am curious about is how this reverence of Grant, who played a key point in keeping our country together and helping African Americans get the right the vote during his Presidency, could then turn so sharply to a reverence of Robert E Lee (a man who, despite his personal disapproval of secession, still fought on behalf of the Confederacy). This strange twisting of reverence is a clear example of the Lost Cause narrative taking root.

We weren’t taught much about Grant’s Presidency during Social Studies/History class. We barely touched on him as a General in the Civil War, except as the man who was called The Butcher and who drank a lot. 

So my question is just how much has this Lost Cause infiltrated our own History books?

David Tennant as Jimmy Murphy

United (2011) 3 of 4

Jack: my name is Captain Jack Harkness, but you can call me...

Jack: *agressively takes off sunglasses*

Jack: ... anytime.

'A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a germ-- but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its affects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone-- look for it in the mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.'

“As long as you are proud, you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see anything that is above you.”

— C. S. Lewis

I was looking through my old artwork and stumbled across this. I drew it over ten years ago now. God, her story makes my heart hurt.

Radiation and its severity was still so wildly underestimated in 1986, but all I am currently doing watching this series is screaming at the screen at the firefighters and crew to just get out of there, literally run for their lives in the opposite direction. Holy crap, this series going to be hard to watch.

Just watched this video about a real life marriage and the husband recounts he proposed to his wife by saying to her, “If we’re going anywhere we’re going down the aisle because I’m too tired, too sick, and too old to do any other damn thing.”

And she just calmly says back, “Well of course I’ll marry you.”

And now all I can think of is the fact that this exchange is EXACTLY how I’d imagine Alec telling Ellie he wants to marry her.

I see Crowley’s ‘you idiot’ and agree it’s utterly heartbreaking...

But I raise you Aziraphale’s pleading, ‘Come with me’, is just as much.

Maybe I'm stating what is completely obvious and I'm just somehow missing it, but I don't think Ian has anything to do with Trish's raping. I think he's got a hand in distributing the pornography around for the kids to see, which is why he wanted that laptop so badly.