Hi, my name is Lance. I grew up in the Detroit area & majored in history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I currently live in the northeast. I have liked various encyclopedia ever since I was a little kid. Wikipedia is generally great, except for hot button topics which are typically dominated and controlled by a bunch of crazy right-wing thugista/lunatics...............(:[

Book Recommendations

Justs a few of the books that I have recently read.

Biography

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

History

War Memoirs

Miscellaneous

Movie Recommendations

Television Recommendations

American Dad
American Experience
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Pretty much anything produced by the BBC
Childrens Hospital
The Colbert Report
Family Guy
Pretty much anything produced by the ITV (TV network)
Morel Orel
Pretty much anything on PBS
Race: The Power of an Illusion
Seconds From Disaster
The Simpsons
Strangers With Candy
The Venture Brothers
Workaholics

Places in which I have had the opportunity to get drunk.........(;

Likes

Academic health science centres
American Apparel (the clothing chain)
Audio books
Senator Tammy Baldwin
Beer
Billy Bragg
Mayor Bertrand Delanoë
Civil Engineering
Firefighters
Senator Al Franken
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
gun regulation
Diplomats
Electric cars
Electric trams
The Eradication of infectious diseases
Progressive Estate Tax
the FDIC
Galeries Lafayette
Grade Separated Rapid Transit and all the metro systems of the world: List of metro systems
Ulysses S. Grant (The savior of the United States)
MLK
Paul Krugman
John Lennon
Abraham Lincoln
Joni Mitchell
The Montreal Metro
Labour unions
Macy's Flagship State Street Department Store (The wiki page doesn't do it justice. It is the last great department store in the United States. Go see it before those idiots in Cincinnati wreck it)
Medicare (Canada)
The Profession of Nursing
The National Health Service
The National Institutes of Health
Barack Obama
Mayor Annise Parker
Police Officers
Printemps
Public Education
Public Libraries Especially the big ones: List of largest libraries
Public Works
Public Universities
Public Utilities
Ramstein
Eleanor Roosevelt
FDR
Physicians
Taxes that are Pigovian
Science
Scientists
Sex
Sin taxes
Skyscrapers
The Social Democratic Party of Germany
Social Security
Solar energy
State owned oil companies: Petoro Statoil Saudi Aramco Abu Dhabi National Oil Company PetroChina
Sovereign wealth funds
Teachers
Union Station (Washington, D.C.)
University Hospitals
Senator Elizabeth Warren
The Washington Metro
Otto Wels (One of the greatest leaders of pre-WW2 Germany. The war and the NAZI takeover possibly could have been averted if his political party had received more external and internal support)
Wine
Georgy Zhukov (Conqueror of the NAZI invaders)

Dislikes

The current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives: John Boehner
George W. Bush
Child labour
Senator Susan Collins
Governor Tom Corbett
Confederates
The Confederate Flag
Jefferson Davis
Diploma Mills AKA For-profit education
Drinking and driving/Senator Mike Crapo
Double standards
False equivalence
Fascists
Federated Department Stores (The lousy Cincinnati based corporation that essentially operates a monopoly on middle and up-market American Department Stores.)
Fossil fuels
Gerrymandering
Congressman Michael Grimes
Trafficking
Adolf Hitler
Governor John Kasich
Robert E. Lee
McDonalds
The Military–industrial complex
Senator Mitch McConnell
Nazis
Nuclear Weapons
Oligarchy
Papal infallibility
The Prison–industrial complex
Regressive Payroll taxes
Governor Rick Scott
Slave owners
smoking
Social Darwinism
Josef Stalin
Senator David Vitter
Walmart
War

Lance Friedman

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