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My grandfather (on the left) play fighting with his youngest brother Judah. My guess is that this was taken around 1940 or 41. Judah was drafted in 1942 (his freshman
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A not insignificant part of my identity is wrapped up in being a Billy Joel hater (in an appropriately Gen X, ironic way of course). A college friend just recorded
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1. Trump read the news today, hoo boy.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1073965319184678913 2. About a lucky man, who made the grade.https://mic.com/articles/162340/future-energy-secretary-rick-perry-got-a-d-in-a-college-class-call
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Facebook just reminded me that 8 years ago today I was at a beer festival in Prague with an enormous sausage replica looming over my head. It should go without
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This is either mind-numbingly clueless, or terrifyingly sinister. As with most things with these super-rich and super-powerful doofuses, it's hard to tell which it is...and there's a good chance that
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In this excellent article, @rickperlstein argued that historians had not paid sufficient attention to the more "surreal" dimensions of the history of American conservatism. Today I went down two surreal
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Fascinating & surprisingly resonant episode of Firing Line from 1966. The topic is extremism, & Buckley is interviewing the head of the ADL, an organization WFB says engages in defamation
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Evergreen headline.1964: Moderate GOP worry they're being drowned out by the John Birch Society & segregationists1984: Moderate GOP worry they're being drowned out by right wing fundamentalists1994 Moderate GOP worry
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In August of 1961 Fred Schwarz, an early pioneer in right wing grifting, held an Anti-Communism Crusade at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. The speech by Dale Evans at
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If you were an Obama voter, take a sec to reflect on how your opinion about him evolved from 2008 to 2016. Not how it went from a binary 1
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With Breitbart beclowining itself in an especially glaring way today, let's not forget that it's always been a sulphurous geyser of right wing propaganda.https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1231017347747500032?s=20 As someone interested in
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In April 2010 the New York Times conducted a poll of Tea Party supporters and compared their answers to those of a random sampling of all Americans. The results are
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