Get me a Lilly Pulitzer dress and a piña colada, stat!
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I was doing research on Napoleon when I found it again
My favorite picture of him
“Try to beat me THIS time, Russia!!!”
I just laughed out loud at this for 5 minutes
Alison
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[look of the hour]
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David Bowie
Dang, who was born in a poor Mekong Delta village called Tra Vinh, is the lead researcher/project coordinator for the Vietnamese American Oral History Project at UC Irvine, and she knows her mission is combating a lingering problem. Far too often, Vietnamese immigrants are stereotyped in the media as anti-communist fanatics, or—perhaps worse—in inane Hollywood action flicks as mumbling bumpkins. “Our community is diverse,” the Garden Grove resident and Scripps College grad says. “I really want to show that.”
(Studs Turkel collected oral histories for his book on WWII, The Good War.)
Find out more about the Vietnamese American Oral Histories Project, which includes a searchable archive of oral histories, here.
I hate the sequester, beginning with its name. “Sequester” is a verb, not a noun. This ridiculous exercise is not just unwise and unproductive but ungrammatical as well. I hate the way the sequester diverts attention from issues that actually matter, such as unemployment, gun violence, climate change, failing schools and the need to spur economic growth. I hate the way it heightens our insularity at a time when we really ought to be paying attention to the rest of the world. Remember Syria?
Eugene Robinson, at the Washington Post (via thesmithian)
