South Park lampoons Thor, the History Channel, and for-profit colleges all at once in its latest Thanksgiving special. I’m catching up on the last season of South Park and we watched A History Channel Thanksgiving last night which is a brilliant spoof of several things all at once. It’s most obviously a spoof of the […]
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“There was one time when I wanted to do some hallucinogens with him, and it was lysergic acid [diethylamide] 25, and he actually stopped me. He just said, “Look, man, it’s very powerful, and it’s a two-day commitment. Are you ready for that?” I said, “I’m not so sure. Maybe, maybe not.” And he said, […]
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Timothy Noah asks: Who, besides William Howard Taft (300+ pounds)–who may or may not have gotten stuck in the White House bathtub but certainly arranged for a bigger one to be installed there–were America’s fattest presidents? Naturally, this is a question spawned by the possibility of a Chris Christie run for the presidency. It turns […]
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“There is great danger it seems to me to arise from the constant habit which prevails where anything is opposed or objected to, of referring without rhyme or reason to the Constitution as a means of preventing its accomplishment, thus creating the general impression that the Constitution is but a barrier to progress instead of […]
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It’s funny how history repeats itself. Conor Williams has an excerpt from Michael Kozin’s The Populist Persuasion up at his blog describing the 1896 elections. The echoes of our own time are glaring: During the presidential campaign, the major parties fought, more pointedly than ever before, to control the symbols and definitions of patriotism. The […]
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I hadn’t seen Pete’s Dragon since I was a kid, so when I watched part of it with my daughter last night, and realized that Pete had actually been a slave of the Gogan family, I was pretty taken aback: I also couldn’t help but think that it would have been a much more powerful […]
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