It’s An Asshole Contest!

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Our first finalist: James Inhofe, arguing that aiding him own state is a completely different issue that aiding heathens in New York and New Jersey. Our second finalist: Tom Coburn, who at least as of now is consistent in applying the same stupid position to disaster...

Yamamoto

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Interesting (slightly old) piece on Isoruku Yamamoto in Japanese historical memory: Unlike the Yushukan museum at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, the Yamamoto museum does not appear to re-write.

Today, a one day strike is taking place among non-union, low-paid government workers, some of the nearly 2 million government workers making less than $12 an hour, which I think is an absurdly low wage for a federal employee or someone employed by a government contractor....

The Greatest Generation

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The greatest generation indeed: The soldiers who landed in Normandy on D-Day were greeted as liberators, but by the time American G.I.’s were headed back home in late 1945, many French citizens viewed them in a very different light. In the port city of Le Havre,...

Crack Babies

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Hardly surprising that the crack babies "epidemic" in the 1980s was based on poorly designed scientific studies and really was just another tool in white backlash tool box to blame.

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