Our Quirky Founding Fathers

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Those of us lucky enough to have received an education rather than an indoctrination think of our nation’s Founding Fathers as serious men on a mission. History books are filled with their grand achievements, their deep thoughts, boldness, courage and their vision for a new nation.

That particular association of the Founders regarding their gravitas has been made more compelling through paintings and etchings depicting them as very serious fellows, but there are things about them that while true, seem to have been glossed over unless one is willing to take a deeper dive into their…quirkiness.

Let’s start at the top with the Father of our Country – George Washington.

We all know that certain presidents have been known to spout off from time to time. Harry S. Truman reportedly had no problem calling a “son-of-a-bitch” a “son-of-a-bitch,” and both LBJ and Nixon were widely known to use colorful language, but a deep dive into our first president reveals the man had an explosive temper and a short fuse. He was also, reportedly, fond of swearing.

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Urine Luck

While many of us persist to focus on the plankton–the incidental consequences–of issue after issue, we tend to ignore the provenance of waters which run deep. Okay, so maybe I’m not making much sense to you so far, but allow me a moment of your time to expound on a document I circulated a few weeks ago regarding the constitutionality of drug-testing welfare recipients. Although the points to counter my argument were compelling, sometimes poignant, it seems that a substantial amount of the counter-pointers live within ideologically fraught parameters. To a degree, the parameters encase a discombobulated “take” which may even, at times, include sub-parameters which cancel each other out. And yet, there they are, coexisting side-by-side with a crooked grin.

Okay, I’m still not making much sense. I understand…

So, I’ll just dive right in.

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