User:Lance Friedman

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

 * Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes, by Stanley Kutler
 * The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
 * Russia's War; Blood Upon The Snow by Richard Overy
 * Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
 * The Third Reich Trilogy by Richard J. Evans

War Memoirs

 * The Nazi Officer's Wife
 * Edith's Story

Miscellaneous

 * Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang*
 * The Singularity Is Near

=Movie Recommendations=
 * Aliens
 * Blazing Saddles
 * Come and See
 * The Day After
 * Deconstructing Harry
 * Dick (film)
 * Europa Europa
 * Goodfellas
 * Hairspray (1988 film)
 * Howards End (film)
 * Jeepers Creepers
 * The Panama Deception
 * The Pianist (2002 film)
 * The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)
 * The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (film)
 * Six Degrees of Separation (film)
 * Threads
 * The Trials of Henry Kissinger
 * The Shining
 * Welcome To The Dollhouse

=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.........(=
 * Angers
 * Amsterdam
 * Atlanta
 * Baltimore
 * Berlin
 * Boston
 * Buffalo, New York
 * Chicago
 * Cleveland
 * Budapest
 * Denver
 * Detroit
 * Disney World
 * Eindhoven
 * Fire Island
 * Frankfurt
 * Galveston
 * Houston
 * Las Vegas
 * London
 * Los Angeles
 * Madison, Wisconsin
 * Madrid
 * Milwaukee
 * Minneapolis
 * Munich
 * Miami Beach
 * Montreal
 * New Orleans
 * New York City
 * Paris
 * Pittsburgh
 * Philadelphia
 * Portland, Oregon
 * Prague
 * Providence, Rhode Island
 * San Diego
 * San Francisco
 * Seattle
 * St Louis
 * Toronto
 * Vienna
 * Washington D.C.

=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