It started tonight on PBS. Fascinating on every level. I learned a lot. I can strongly recommend.
Ken Burns Benjamin Franklin
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I am always skeptical of people who feel the need to interject their names into their projects. Was I going to mistakenly think that Trump or Tyler Perry made a Ben Franklin documentary?
Ken Burns is such a Juggernaut, they are gonna feature his name whether he wants them to or not, methinks.
I read a book on the mathematic constant "e" twice. He did a documentary on baseball. One subject is super interesting the other is inexcusably boring and automatically dismisses all further work in my opinion. I may watch the Ben Franklin thing though, but only because old Ben was a total player.
What is it with whoremongering and greatness?
(I believe it’s the excess testosterone)
(I believe it’s the excess testosterone)
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. "
I'd rather have a powerful person exercise consensual debauchery than say genocide.
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I spent 9 months in the Franklin Juvenile segregation unit in Whitehall NY. It was not named after Ben Franklin for the reason you might think. I was 14.
When did you discover that mountain biking could save your soul, brother?
Bicycles also entered my life when I was 14. Father Kenline gave me his Raliegh Gran Tour when he went back home to Ireland. The desk I am sitting at also.
atleast lightning strikes