"Where yesterday has been exiled, Memory is Rebellion." -- driftglass, January, 2010
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As you might have noticed, recently I've been talking up the fact that I've been at this keyboard now for 20 years, and t... -
To date, this is how the very few interactions I've had with Never Trumpers have gone, because I want to talk about the Befor...
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Dick the fuck Cheney was just shy of his fourteenth birthday when Ira Hayes died. Am I a bad person for wishing that Ira had shot little Dick in the face before he died?
Marcy Wheeler is essential reading if you want to know what is going on with the legal challenges to the Fergus administration.
Cancel culture used to be what was called "manners" when I was a kid. Manners are an underappreciated method for lowering the homicide rate as the population density increases.
Now it's just another word for butthurt. Perhaps my perspective on this is a bit skewed by the bikers I grew up around.
Well, the argument over the use of "fascist" is once again going to be decided by whether or not the goddamn fascists win.
So far they never have, but a lot was lost making that be so.
Thank you again for the podcast. So now it's spring, and last week it snowed a couple of feet. Things are progressing toward our move, but some bullshit will have to be coped with on the way. Same as it ever was, I guess.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Not sure if you mentioned this, but His Girl Friday was a remake of The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, wherein the character of Hildy Johnson was a man. So in His Girl Friday, they gave a man’s job to a lady! That’s DEI!
MacArthur was a City Newser, as was my wife (and I suppose me, come to think of it) and the play was allegedly based on his experiences at City News Bureau of Chicago, storied boot camp to journalists, now defunct
His Girl Friday was a remake of The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, wherein the character of Hildy Johnson was originally a man.So for His Girl Friday, the character was recast as a woman, clearly DEI ‘galwashing’!
MacArthur was a City Newser, as was my wife (and me, to a lesser degree)
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