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The Herman Cain Freedom Award

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This site on Reddit is dedicated to memorializing people who ranted in public against vaccines. masks. mandates, etc., and then died of COVID. It's fascinating and horrifying in a really morbid way, and I don't necessarily recommend that LGMers jump down this particular Internet rabbit hole,...
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Mississippi Goddamn

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Mississippi continues to impress its inability to even decently deal with its past. When it was notified this week that another sign commemorating Emmett Till had disappeared, the Emmett Till Interpretive Center had every reason to be worried.Since 2008, when placards identifying places of significance in...
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Swiftboating grief

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This was an A1 story in yesterday's New York Times: Who, exactly, is objecting? Well, one father whose politics can be safely inferred from the fact that he took his story to Sean Hannity, and a former speechwriter for George W. Bush: “Mr. Biden is not...
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LGM Film Club, Part 204: Born to Win

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Awhile back, I profiled The Onion Field in this series, noting how many 70s movies were failures but interesting failures. Well, that film withers on this point in comparison to the 1971 film Born to Win. Directed by the Czech New Wave emigre Ivan Passer and...
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