My only suggestion if you make it a recurring thing would be a shorter list with some explaination. While some are obvious, others do require some commentary (i.e. Enlightenment, Thousand Island Dressing - my personal favorite)
Mike McKain | Homepage | 04.23.07 - 9:48 am | #

Just because you are a royalist doesn't mean everybody thinks the French/Russian revolutions were bad.
Ryan Mc. | Homepage | 04.23.07 - 2:33 pm | #

Mike, good suggestion, and if I do another one of these, I will provide explanation.

Ryan Mc, I'm not going to sit here defending the Czar or the French Monarchy, but what came after, in terms of human deaths as well as the intellectual damage is an insurmountable obstacle to calling either revolution anything but 'bad.'
Ryan S. | Homepage | 04.23.07 - 2:45 pm | #

What was wrong with Aaron Burr??? Sure, he shot Hamilton, but it was a duel and the man had it coming to him. Surely the Cultural Revolution was far worse.
G Rex | 04.23.07 - 4:57 pm | #

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Bur...Burr_conspiracy

I don't like Hamilton all that much (John Adams was the Federalist for me!), but Burr was a traitor nonetheless.
Ryan S. | Homepage | 04.23.07 - 9:53 pm | #

hey people gotta be free
Ryan Mc. | Homepage | 04.24.07 - 11:08 am | #

Its interesting - French Revolution - Good Idea, bad outcome

American Civil War - bad ideas, good outcome (I have no problem with states' rights, but leaving the country because you don't like who won the free and fair election is just plain childish in my view
Mike McKain | Homepage | 04.24.07 - 12:01 pm | #

...which is why I'm still here an not in Canada after 2004.
Mike McKain | Homepage | 04.24.07 - 12:01 pm | #

"Its interesting - French Revolution - Good Idea, bad outcome"

Mike, while the monarchy becoming less powerful is probably a good thing, the ideas that fueled the French Revolution, as opposed to the American Revolution, the English Civil War, etc., were bad ideas. Rousseau, Voltaire, and others are the reasons why the French Revolution turned out so badly.

American Civil War - bad ideas, good outcome

I would argue that secession and the War are two totally separate issues.
Ryan S. | Homepage | 04.25.07 - 9:48 am | #

uh were is the Iraq War?

Electing Bush not once but 2 times?

How about harriet Miers for the Supreme Court?

how about the "War on Drugs"?

Where would you rank "Global Warming"?
donviti | Homepage | 04.25.07 - 4:59 pm | #

Right, because I said that this was an objective or comprehensive list...
Ryan S. | Homepage | 04.25.07 - 8:51 pm | #