Mezz Mezzrow on Cannabis versus Alcohol

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…

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George Washington and Slavery

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

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George Washington and Religious fanaticism

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

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