Bliss Hippy

We were on another plane in another sphere compared to the musicians who were bottle babies … We liked things to be easy and relaxed, mellow and mild, not loud or loutish, and the scowling chin-out tension of the lushhounds…

For my final installment on Ron Chernow's George Washington: A Life ... 

The Press

However trying he often found the press, Washington understood its importance in a democracy and voraciously devoured gazettes. Before becoming president, he had lauded newspapers and…

From Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life: 

The idea that abolition could be deferred to some future date when it would be carried out by cleanly incremental legislative steps was a common fantasy among the founders, since it shifted the…

Washington loathed religious fanaticism, and on that subject he sounded like a true student of the Enlightenment. 'We have abundant reason to rejoice that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry…