stimulate

How the GI Bill changed the economy

(aka The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944)

shamrock o'bama

symphonic diplomacy

The Pyongyang Concert

The New York Philharmonic became the first major American orchestra to perform in the insulated communist country. North Korean officials broadcast the concert nationwide and internationally, and it is now captured on a new DVD titled The Pyongyang Concert.

The audience applauded for more than five minutes, and orchestra members, some of them crying, waved. People in the seats cheered and waved back, reluctant to let the visitors leave.
(NY Times 2/27/08)

perception

"You see things in a different way, I think, if you've ever taken music seriously. Even if you're not a great musician"

-Bill Clinton, 2008
from Specatacle, Elvis Costello with...

trust them...

it says, "the world is changing"

american badass

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving”

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, (b.1815 d.1902)

clear enough?

"I promise you this: When I am president, any governor who's willing to promote clean energy will have a partner in the White House. Any company that's willing to invest in clean energy will have an ally in Washington. And any nation that's willing to join the cause of combating climate change will have an ally in the United States of America."

-Barack Obama
to the Governors' Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles
11/18/08

line in the sand

song for america

fight to the death for marriage equality

callibrate your watches, ready, set, GO!

finally today

y'argh, it's halloween

Barack H Obama (mid 60s)

Yes We Can (Hold Babies)

Yes We Can (Hold Babies) is the international source for pictures of Obama holding babies. There are occasionally some kisses involved, sometimes the babies are a little too old to be classified as babies, and sometimes we just post pictures of Obama

death in the civil war

Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust

Interview from NPR's Fresh Air
10/24/08

"Men and women approach death in ways shaped by history, by culture, by conditions that vary over time and across space.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history."

then & now

yes, obamanos!

Obama in New Mexico on NPR

leave it to the bears to get things done

friendly faces born in 1961