Those economic issues were the direct result of an agricultural economy, based on slave labor. By the way, the North’s industrial economy, and hence its economic superiority, was a direct result of Southern, slave-owning Thomas Jefferson’s embargo on international trade.
Wynton Marsalis recorded an album of old-time blues with a band of superb New Orleans musicians. Plus Eric Clapton on guitar. If he’s good enough for Mr. Marsalis, he should be good enough for Huey. By the way, it’s a terrific album.
Tolstoy started out telling you what the characters were like, rather than showing you. It didn’t help that it was impossible to keep track of which 15-syllable name went with which character. I made it about ten pages in before I threw in the towel. I got further in Moby Dick. (But not much!)
Not so. Check out the World Baseball Classic. Puerto Rico, D.R., Venezuela, Japan (perennial winners!), Taiwan, South Korea, even the Netherlands, Italy and Israel. Et cetera.
As a lapsed Catholic friend once said, “Occasionally, the Lord sees fit to intervene miraculously in the affairs of men.” (I think he was referring to John XXIII, but it can fit others, too.)
Wait…I thought Ann Coulter was a guy in drag. That would mean that, if Conway was Coulter “in drag”, then…uh,…(Sorry. My head just exploded.)