The Gary Sheraton Hotel (465 Broadway, Gary, Indiana). "...The exact date of the hotel's closing is difficult to pin down - no record in the newspaper exists. Most accounts place it in 1984 or 1985, but it could have closed even a few years earlier. Thus a symbol of failed urban redevelopment overshadows City Hall only a few steps away - the mayor and the city council park their cars in what once was the hotel's shared front parking lot." From Lost Indiana. A fabulous chronicle of the lost, abandoned, and derelect.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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