Mark Lanegan Quotes
It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.
Lanegan, Mark. Interview with Dorian Lynskey. "Mark Lanegan: 'I've never been in charge. I'm just a lazy bastard'." The Guardian, 5 Jan. 2012.
Sinclair had written The Jungle which was an expose of the meat packing industry which at the time was brutal for the workers and unhealthy and unsanitary for the consumers. The book was exceedingly popular and there were many cries for reform and regulation. Sinclair however was continuing pressuring President Roosevelt who he did not think was acting fast enough. After the telegram, Roosevelt got the first Pure Food & Drug Commission created legislatively.
In 1862 after a Sioux uprising, a U. S. military commission condemned 303 Indians to death. President Lincoln wanted to delegate reviewing the sentences for possible pardon. The President personally reviewed the records of each case and pardoned most. On December 26, 1862 the largest public execution in American history took place with 38 Indians hanged.
Mark William Lanegan is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is known for his baritone voice, which has been described as being "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather" and has been compared to Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits.
