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I think you know why I’m writing — it’s Clint Eastwood’s birthday! Happy Birthday legendary American-weirdo filmmaker!! Your preoccupations with jazz and war and covered bridges have defined seventy years of national id and we salute you as we salute so many of our bright flowering young men who died at Khe Sanh, at Langdok, […]
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Worst American Birthdays, vol. 50

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On June 11, 2009
John Yoo and his uncrushed testicles turned 42 years old today. Because John Yoo is not, in fact, a conservative at all, he seems unbothered by the fact that his government managed to sustain itself for well over two centuries without relying on the insane legal yodeling for which he’ll forever be remembered. As one […]
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Worst American Birthdays, vol. 47

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On February 11, 2009
Let’s say it’s mid-August 2008. You’re a nationally unknown governor from a geographically large, demographically insignificant state. It’s true, of course, that you possess comically errant beliefs about science and the environment, and your reputation as a “maverick” has been oversold by half. But you’re young and chipper, you’re overwhelmingly popular with your constituents, and […]
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Worst American Birthdays, vol. 46

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On February 10, 2009

Talk-show host and Incredibly Strange Man Glenn Beck turns 45 today. A former substance abuser and sufferer from adult-onset Mormonism, Beck vaulted into media prominence from the back of Terri Schiav

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Worst American Birthdays, vol. 45

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On January 11, 2009

Few actors on the fringes of American politics have been so consistently insane as David Joel Horowitz, who commences his eighth decade of douchebaggery today. Like the itinerant street prophets who d

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Worst American Birthdays, vol. 44

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On January 3, 2009
(Spurred by popular demand — that is, a single query via Facebook — I’m resuming this series after nearly a year of neglect…) James Orson Bakker, one of the greatest religious frauds in US history, turns 68 today. Bakker and his first wife, the inimitable Tammy Faye, spent a quarter-century building and then destroying an […]
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