Ulysses S. Grant

[ritaxis]

I don't know how many people regularly follow Patrick's sidelights at Making Light, but today there's a really interesting one: Nathan Newman talks about why Ulysses S. Grant might be our best president, and why we don't mostly think so.

The short version: Ulysses S. Grant did more than any other president to promote equal rights and democracy, and his history has been buried and his reputation has been smeared by the forces which defeated Reconstruction.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to get an RSS feed for this guy Nathan Newman. He's hot stuff.

Comments

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

No, that's the part I know how to do. But the site has to have an RSS url to enter: the regular url doesn't work. I've done this before. I'm pretty sure I don't know the proper language to speak about it, but I do know that if you enter the regular url on the syndication page you get an error message. You have to have an alternative url that leads to a page of some other sort of code to make the syndication work.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Ah. That is linked where the home page says "Syndicate this Site (XML)". The url is <http://www.nathannewman.org/log/index.rdf>--that's a syndicator URL.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the one I was already given, and it doesn't work.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I just tried it again, and this time it worked. Go figure.