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SLYTHERIN
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Lauren, 29, dc area, INTJ, feminist, liberal, ACOA, virgo, bachelorette of arts and eventually a juris doctor
Fandoms: supernatural, sherlock, dc comics, cold case, hunger games trilogy, his dark materials, dc animated universe, teen wolf. Destiel is my OTP
People: Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Jennifer Lawrence, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chris Hemsworth, Lauren Bacall, Charlize Theron, Gabrielle Union, Tina Fey, Oded Fehr, Matt Groening, Kat Dennings, Aaron Sorkin
Stuff & Things: politics, history, contemporary fiction and non-fiction, art, painting, cooking, writing, crafting, and beta-ing fanfics
Expectations My blog will be an agglomeration of politics, fandoms, geekery, art, and food porn.
SLYTHERIN
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pbsthisdayinhistory:
September 19, 1881
President James Garfield Dies
On this day in 1881, President James Garfield succumbed to the wounds inflicted 80 days earlier by an assassin, an enraged and potentially mentally unstable political-office seeker. Despite Garfield’s doctors’ best efforts, they could not find and remove the two bullets lodged in his body. He had only been in office for just under four months.
For more on James Garfield’s presidency, visit his American Experience presidential biography.
If you’re looking for presidential facts for kids, visit the PBS Kids Go! “Secrets About the Presidents” site.
Photo: Library of Congress
legrandcirque:
The children of President James Garfield, ca. 1881.
Garfield is my favorite president—no, really. He came from nothing…and I will edit this later. I’m too tired and too emotional about James A.
And his wife Lucretia…Oh, Crete… (via collectivehistory)
anticapitalist:
The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly.
The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. It is also entirely wrong. Like the mini-furor a couple of months back about the claim that Richard Nixon was our first gay president, the story simply ignores that the U.S. already had a gay president more than a century ago.
There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.
Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote:
I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.
Tl;dr Newsweek go fuck yourself. We’ve had a gay president before. Stop being a sensationalist piece of shit.
(via reagan-was-a-horrible-president)
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