Abraham Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The 2nd Inaugural Address (2002 video)

Have you 58 minutes to devote to a presentation of Abraham Lincoln’s second Inauguration Address delivered on March 4, 1965? The president’s future assassin and the co-conspirators were in the throng that day and listening to his lofty words but being bent on revenge, nursing grudges due to Union war atrocities, and holding a deep hatred toward him for signing the Emancipation Proclamation, the

Chrissie Hynde, Leader of the Band

“Now, let me assure you that, technically speaking, however you want to look at it, this was all my doing and I take full responsibility.” — Chrissie Hynde could be talking about her whole life in that one sentence. Everyone had that album: the Pretenders first. Pictured: a line up — sulky  Chrissie Hynde in a ketchup-coloured jacket with the three male members of the band in black, variously posing. There she is, just one of the band — and at the same time, so startlingly different. Hynde was no floaty hippie chick, like the women in Fleetwood Mac or even Grace Slick; she wasn’t […]

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5 Tips for Finessing Your Mercury Retrograde

From 9/17/15-10/9/15 Mercury will move retrograde from 16 to 1 degrees Libra. The Facts Three times a year, for approximately three weeks time, Mercury slows down so that from the Earth’s perspective it appears to move backwards. We call this Mercury retrograde. Mercury is associated with the zodiacal signs Gemini and Virgo. In mythology he […]

Will Republicans Force Another Govt Shutdown? – Ed Schultz (+ Mercury Rx)

With Federal Reserve officials meeting today and announcing their interest rate decision tomorrow (the day of announcing Mercury’s Rx Station on US natal Saturn in mid-Libra!), here is Ed Schultz on the threat of another expensive government shutdown in the Republicans’ misguided attempt to de-fund (Mercury Rx?) Planned Parenthood over the abortion/fetal tissue issue even though abortion via