Swiveling for Freedom
Thomas Jefferson. Founding father. President. Writer. Inventor.
Nearly everyone loves Thomas Jefferson in this country. He’s a Tea Party favorite, liberals love him – hell, even Christopher Hitchens was a fan.
So while everyone celebrates the United States’ birthday – and thus celebrates one of the finest pieces of American writing, The Declaration of Independence, consider one of Thomas Jefferson’s other additions to American life.
Legend has it that Jefferson used a specially made chair while writing the Declaration – one he invented himself.
The swivel chair.
Technically it was a “Revolving Windsor Armchair,” according to Jefferson’s Monticello, but either way the concept is the same. So, if you’re like me, working from home this July 4th, join me in a swivel in your home office chair while reading the Declaration of Independence.
Swivel Free or Die.
I spent the 4th and the 5th with my original BFF from junior high/high school. Brought vegan food to her brother’s annual cookout, got to meet and hang out with her two sons (thank you, Facebook!), took a long walk through the woods (there’s not much left in that part of NJ), listened to Dylan for hours, etc. No false patriotism, no TV, just two old friends enjoying time together, sharing and caring. Ahhh.
Back in the day,Elvis Presley freely swiveled his hips and made young ladies swoon. Conservatives didn’t care for that swiveling and Ed Sullivan Show wouldn’t allow the cameras to show Elvis swiveling his hips on live t,v.
Speaking of the founding fathers, David Atkins today has a good collection of quotes worth keeping in your wallet for the next time some libertarian acquaintance starts emitting gas about property rights:
Trust me, you’ll love this
I did.
I do.
Thank you!
Ditto.
Also.
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I did love it, and went on to read his other article in which he presented other views of the 4th of July. It was a great read. I have not seen his site before. Thanks for posting it.
wasn’t it at that Teaparty rally, hosted by Bachmann , that wasn’t a Rally… that Boner read the opening lines to the Declaration of Independence , after announcing he was reading the Constitution ???? ( and nobody corrected him ?? got love those Teaparty types!)
http://tinyurl.com/q4e5alx
The rwnj on the Texas Bored of Adjudication weren’t overly fond of T J,to say the least. He has been replaced in school books by nutter fave John Calvin. If necessity is the mother of invention,and I have no doubt Jefferson needed a swivel chair to keep his eyes on religious nutjobs,was it rilly necessary to invent teabaggers? History would be better served if our Founding Fathers had invented “Flower Power” and the peace sign.
Bleah.
Textbook revision is getting to be so weird.
When are we gonna bust up the tendency for publishers to use TX’s crazy revisions as a template for the whole “market”?
Did you read that stinko set of comments by the unabashed colonialist religio-statesman “Scott Foster” there? PfffTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Won’t be reading the Declaration of Independence or any other declarations today.
Have about had it with uninspected, ill defined, rally-call crap about freedom, rights, and the like.
Gonna go watch the kids in my community chase salt water taffy thrown by firefighters, local indigenous peoples dance, and the like in our parade and NOT think about the stoopid crap passing as expressions of patriotism and freedoms.
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0111-04.htm
McGraw-Hill and the dumbass dubya family are conjoined twins. They go back in time to the 30’s. This is a conspiracy theorists wet dream-meaning Moi.
Scott Foster was apparently weaned on Fake Noise. Another Glen Beck in the making.Goodness gracias.