Why The Past Matters

Such a beautiful mini documentary from the NY Times today.
Why we hang on to things, places: because they matter in our story.

Susan Collins Gets Gussied Up

Before and After
Susan Collins: All gussied up (as my mothered would have called it) for her 'Big Day', no longer just One of the Guys, but THE Guy,  sadly and clearly overdoes it, in an attempt to appear female: bouffant hairdo, extreme blue eye shadow and just so wrong makeup, as she stands up for her fellow Republican mysogynists.  If she thinks they'll have her back when they're done with her, she's got another thing coming. I can't imagine how she sleeps at night. In fact, my guess is they're all zombies, and this is the Apocalypse.

Good Lord, whoever did her eyebrows should be flogged. It's downright camp, non? To don such a getup on such a sad day flies in the face of all that is decent. Her smug betrayal of women is infuriating, a move I'll wager she will live to regret, as will they all.

before

after

"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."  Adlai Stevenson 

And this is interesting, from Wiki:

"Many years later it was revealed that during the campaign Stevenson was approached by Soviet Ambassador Menshikov who offered Soviet financial and public relations help to assist him in getting elected if he decided to run. Stevenson flatly rejected the Soviet offer telling Menshikov that he, "considered the offer of such assistance highly improper, indiscreet and dangerous to all concerned." Stevenson then reported the incident directly to President Eisenhower."

No kidding... seriously?  Well, I'l be..