For all their faults, and there certainly were many — take a look at what the Declaration of Independence has to say about Native Americans– I’ll take our founding fathers over just about anyone’s. Look what happened in France after their revolution or how badly the Soviet revolution ended. America got very lucky by comparison.

I honestly hadn’t said it out loud, but now that you’ve made me say it out loud to myself, it is super fun to say. :p

Aw, thanks, Care! 🙂

I feel the same! All the little pockets of knowledge of whose existence I am totally unaware, and they are just out there waiting for me to stumble upon them. Yay.

I don’t like feeling cynical! I very much prefer to feel that people are good and their intentions are honest. I really do. They just keep proving me wrong.

If I do discover anything bad about John Clarkson, I’m going to post about it. Because otherwise I’d feel like I was concealing evidence. Want me to use a code post title so that you won’t have to know about it? A code post title that means “Memory, don’t read this, it will only make you sad”?

I hope you like it! You can skip through the beginning parts, I think, and get right to the awesome stuff — if you get confused, there’s always Wikipedia to help you and explain things. 🙂

It’s just that all people everywhere have feet of clay. Even good people aren’t perfect. And the way they aren’t perfect always seems to be something really rotten instead of something little like failing to declare things on their taxes. So I feel like John Clarkson probably has a thing.