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The Light Fantastic — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:27:54 -0800

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Paging Duncan Fletcher...

saulgoodman — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:56:49 -0800

Who will be our era's Duncan Fletcher? Fed up with widespread financial sector double-dealing, profiteering and opportunism in the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression, a soft-spoken, conservative Democrat senator from Jacksonville, Florida stepped up to play an instrumental role in shaping post-Depression era financial policies. Known previously throughout his career for tending to side with banking industry and big business interests on policy matters, Fletcher's crusading campaign to establish more effective financial regulations earned him the title "Dixie's Reluctant Progressive" (as an interesting aside, note how accurately the Amazon tags for Fletcher's biography reflect these historical nuances). In addition to both the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Fletcher played a key contributing role in shaping the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. Many analysts consider the repeal of this act (which was gradually whittled away under pressure from the banking industry before its repeal by the Republican legislature under the Clinton White House in 1999) to have played a major contributing role in the US's current financial crisis.

The Great Queers of History

madamjujujive — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:11:11 -0800

The Great Queers of History - I am sometimes asked, ‘But does it really matter that some historical figure, for example Tchaikovsky, was gay? ... But I like to pose some questions of my own in response: ‘If it doesn't really matter, why has society taken such great pains to conceal Tchaikovsky’s sexuality, maybe even murder him for it? from Lists of famous homosexuals ( ... and a prior related post by anastasiav, Homosexuality in 18th Century England)

Berry, King, Terkel, Baldwin, and...

moonbird — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:30:50 -0800

Americans who tell the truth.

Global Artists

homunculus — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:30:05 -0800

Global Artists. If influential historical figures were reincarnated as artists, what works of art would they produce today? [Via Aeiou.]

Er ... what?

magullo — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:42:34 -0800

Because you never know when you might need to purchase some historic(al) hair