Thought for Today: "Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile." — William Cullen Bryant, American poet (1794-1878).
AWWWW, how sweet we are getting around here now 
He's more than compensating for yesterday's quote....
Also it can't be characterized as commie/pinko!
Ah, but the author most certainly was a pinko, at least by the standards of his time (Marx was a ways off yet).
On the other hand, he became an early Republican (as most liberals did, then, because they were abolitionist) and introduced Lincoln at the Cooper Union, which was the event that made Lincoln a viable candidate.
Our political adjectives get constantly redefined in the name of populism. Yesterday's Liberals are today's Conservatives and tomorrow's anarchists.
In truth there are only two real tides in all of politics - populism and principle. Unfortunately, all human political systems are collective in nature, and therefore more subject to populism than principle. We hold up "bipartisanship" as a noble ideal, when in fact it is by nature a negotiation led to compromise. But we wonder why our politicians are for sale to the nearest bidder.
