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Lenny Bruce got Lyndon Johnson totally wrong (but maybe it wasn’t his fault)

All the good, smart people looked at Lyndon Johnson take the White House in November of 1963 and said “What an asshole; we’re doomed.” But once installed, Johnson, a politician first and foremost, knew what time it was and what he would be remembered for. Continue reading

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The remarkable endurance of San Francisco’s creepy “Early Days” statue

Heather Knight of the San Francisco Chronicle has a good history of a statue that should be sitting in some municipal storage basement, rather than perched in front of the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library. “Early Days,” as it … Continue reading

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White House: are you washed in the blood of the pig?

Largely eclipsed by the Charlottesville Horror are comments that President Trump made the other day that included a historical lesson on how to deal with Muslim terrorists. The advisory came in the course of a statement denouncing the recent ISIS … Continue reading

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