tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247002493176705100.post8514890850926387014..comments2023-10-14T02:24:04.900-07:00Comments on This Day In Science Fiction: 19 July 2014Prof. Hubbardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16575880031145705761noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247002493176705100.post-6194535457155084642014-07-19T17:21:20.241-07:002014-07-19T17:21:20.241-07:00Thanks James, I'll add it in. I likely mistook...Thanks James, I'll add it in. I likely mistook it for <i>Love Letters</i>, the Broadway play where professionals don't have to memorize their lines.<br />Prof. Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16575880031145705761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247002493176705100.post-2717217380247514372014-07-19T15:11:01.831-07:002014-07-19T15:11:01.831-07:00Addendum: Campbell Scott was also in "The Lo...Addendum: Campbell Scott was also in "The Love Letter" with Jennifer Jason Leigh, a TV movie in which two people communicate with letters across 130+ years of time. It's kinda like "Lake House", but good (in a Hallmark movie kind of way).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247002493176705100.post-88853871374185002252014-07-19T13:17:28.315-07:002014-07-19T13:17:28.315-07:00Arrgh. 13th Amendment?!?! . Where's that come...Arrgh. 13th Amendment?!?! . Where's that come from? I blame Obama.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247002493176705100.post-66457642029186498212014-07-19T12:53:29.048-07:002014-07-19T12:53:29.048-07:00A friend who teaches history is always glad to poi...A friend who teaches history is always glad to point out that the 18th and 19th Amendments both hoped to outlaw bad husbands and fathers. Didn't quite work out as planned.<br />Prof. Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16575880031145705761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8247002493176705100.post-30430215344361119752014-07-19T11:26:38.227-07:002014-07-19T11:26:38.227-07:00I watched the first half of the Ken Burns "Pr...I watched the first half of the Ken Burns "Prohibition" documentary recently. There was an interesting confluence of progressives, suffragists, women's rigths advocates and moral scolds that came to bring pressure on the gubblement and make the 13th Amendment happen. The violence resulting from alcoholic parents fell extraordinarily heavy on women and children so for many, it was the original domestic violence issue.<br /><br />Of course, rather than address the root causes of the alcoholism and violence, the temperance movement kind of overstepped by going for legal prohibition, which not only didn't address the underlying issues, but failed to even slow drinking down very much. Not to mention making criminals of wide swaths of Americans, and financing the rise of organized crime.<br /><br />I found it amusing that on the day that Prohibition went into effect, there was a rash of liquor truck hijackings across the country.<br /><br />With the large numbers of German immigrants in Milwaukee and Wisconsin, it may not need to be mentioned than Prohibition was not popular here. Also, pretty widely ignored.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.com