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Harriet Tubman.
Right; it seems that American feminists have caught the same bug as Canadian feminists, and are demanding that a woman at last appear on the currency.
At least this makes a little more sense than the Canadian case, in which there has virtually always been a woman on the currency. In the US, sisters have only been there now and then, as Colombia, Susan B. Anthony, Sacajewa, and so forth....

Heads LGBTs Win, Tails Christians Lose | The American Conservative:
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'Od's Blog: Catholic and Clear Grit comments on the passing parade.

Dali, "The Persistence of Memory"
Western civilization has never recovered from World War I. It has PTSD and has been trying to commit suicide ever since.
We saw Yeats’ prophecy of this in “The Second Coming,” first published in 1920. But there was another great poem published just two years later, in 1922: T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” Many consider it the first great trumpet blast of Modernism. Which...

The Byrds were a big deal back in the mid-Sixties. They were “America’s answer to the Beatles.” And they were actually quite good. I know it has been said that only two, Jim McGuinn and Chris Hillman, were actually competent musicians. The rest were...