whump.com | More Like This WebLog » science http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis Where is their vote? Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:55:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “If you want to understand…” http://www.whump.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whump.com%2FmoreLikeThis%2F2009%2F07%2F03%2Fif-you-want-to-understand%25e2%2580%25a6%2F&seed_title=%26%238220%3BIf+you+want+to+understand%E2%80%A6%26%238221%3B http://www.whump.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whump.com%2FmoreLikeThis%2F2009%2F07%2F03%2Fif-you-want-to-understand%25e2%2580%25a6%2F&seed_title=%26%238220%3BIf+you+want+to+understand%E2%80%A6%26%238221%3B#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:39:01 +0000 Bill Humphries http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/?p=4634 For the Fourth of July, Maria Kalman’s sketchblog on Thomas Jefferson, a brilliant and flawed man.

If you want to understand this country and its people and what it means to be optimistic and complex and tragic and wrong and courageous, you need to go to [Jefferson's] home in Virginia. Monticello.

This does not absolve him of the wrongs he did, but I have some better perspective and respect for the man. [ via Terry Karney ]

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