Did you catch the Ken Burns super duper documentary on Benjamin Franklin? I did. Benjamin Franklin has always been my favorite among the founding fathers. Of all the American founding fathers, Mr. Franklin is the most relatable. Benjamin is real while all the other founders of this once great nation are mostly poseurs. With the single exception of George Washington. Not even Tommy the Jefferson comes close to Mr. Franklin. I did learn that America's founders were slavers with possibly one exception. I learned that Franklin refused to patent just about all of his inventions. Thomas Edison can't say that. At times Mr. Franklin could be one cold human and then in the reverse of that, the man was magnanimous. Benjamin Franklin was a riddle wrapped tightly around a conundrum stuffed inside a mystery. As for Ken Burns, he's sort of enamored of his documentary work. Burns' work is timely and accurate and the guy probably owns PBS. PBS doesn't exactly air any other documentarians work. Pity that. Anyway PBS decided to air the production on two nights with the two part party of the first part being aired back to back with the party of the second part following...yeah confusing isn't it. I couldn't figure out why PBS would air the first episode and then air the first episode again. Same on night the second. Curious to say the least. Possibly so that America wouldn't miss a chance to watch a documentary about the most amazing and popular founding father without doubt. Or debate. So now the Burns-fest has come and gone. Probably won't be seen again until the very next time PBS holds a beg-a-thon. PBS does that a lot. "Give us money...won't you?" Now we'll move on to the machine art segment of todays 'burnsumentary'. That's a jab at Burns.
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non assigned neutral binality credit to a nonspecific gender. yeah...whatever. 🙈🙉🙊
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