#reconstruction?

[whatmorecanisew]

Have I said that I fell in love with the 1985 walking skirt pattern? I have. Right after I finished the flannel one I bought fabric for this summer version (the fabric pattern had an easy time convincing me that this is a good idea). I feel like a witch in this skirt, and it's a good feeling. I have heard that a walking skirt is the first project on historical reconstruction path...

[cyb0rg-lungs]

I love

Living and being alive

[telltaletypist]

everybody wants to be a deconstruction nowadays

sooner or later we’re gonna run out of genres to deconstruct

[asouthernman]

Nearly every movie that I have seen that involves the US Civil War *has* portrayed the Union as murderous invaders, and the Confederacy as heroic defenders of home and hearth. I cannot think of a single significant movie that shows the Union as a force of liberation, re-union, and forgiveness. Which it was.

Arlie Davis in a letter to Roger Ebert.

I'm not one of those Southerners who think we were entirely innocent in the War Between the States. Slavery was the worst thing to ever happen to our great country and I'm glad it ended, but this person obviously has never studied Reconstruction, Sherman's March, or countless other examples of the Union invading the South and seeking to "punish" Southerners for their ways. I can't read those last two sentences without laughing.