Fuck yeah, UW
This is the greatest center of learning on our planet. And now we have proof. FORWARD!
****All credit to be given to UW Milwaukee Libraries*****
I work in digitization and this is part of our collection of Milwaukee Postcards
I will start uploading pictures of Milwaukee from our online collections
yes!
Spencer Tracy with commander and crew of the submarine Icefish, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1944.
On this day in 1900, the actor Spencer Tracy was born in Milwaukee. He went on to star in dozens of films, including Adam’s Rib, Father of the Bride, and Inherit the Wind. In this photo, naval officers and crew present Tracy with a model of the Icefish, one of 28 submarines built by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company during World War II.
via: Manitowoc County Historical Society by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
a brief stop at the 30th street industrial corridor & talgo to look at trains & feel weird & feel weird.
Brew City Safari: Burleigh Ave May 12th, 2013 12 pm
Celebrate Mother’s Day with a sunday stroll down Milwaukee’s North Side. We start out just north of Wauwatosa on 76th and Burleigh making our way into the Sherman Park neighborhood, northeast into Union Cemetery and Borchert Field, the Harawbee neighborhood through Riverwest and finally ending the hike at the steps of UWM’s Union
Meet up at the Pizza Hut parking lot on 76th and Burleigh.
Return trips can be made via route 60 on the Milwaukee Transit System
But the key point is this: those who admire the deceased public figure (and their politics) aren’t silent at all. They are aggressively exploiting the emotions generated by the person’s death to create hagiography. Typifying these highly dubious claims about Thatcher was this (appropriately diplomatic) statement from President Obama: “The world has lost one of the great champions of freedom and liberty, and America has lost a true friend.” Those gushing depictions can be quite consequential, as it was for the week-long tidal wave of unbroken reverence that was heaped on Ronald Reagan upon his death, an episode that to this day shapes how Americans view him and the political ideas he symbolized. Demanding that no criticisms be voiced to counter that hagiography is to enable false history and a propagandistic whitewashing of bad acts, distortions that become quickly ossified and then endure by virtue of no opposition and the powerful emotions created by death. When a political leader dies, it is irresponsible in the extreme to demand that only praise be permitted but not criticisms.
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Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk (via alwaysalreadyangry) Amen. |
