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Keep Dick Tasting

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On August 12, 2021

I’ve been doing archival research the last week in the Bob Packwood Papers. The thing about doing archival research is that you never know what weirdness you are going to find. That’s espe

Buttons

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On November 8, 2016

I got nothing this morning. It’s just a waiting game now, unless you are getting people out to vote, which makes you awesome. But here’s some of the great campaign buttons of American pres

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That Richard Nixon. What leadership he showed signing environmental legislation that passed the House 421-4 or whatever. That’s the sign of a true liberal. America’s great environmentalist president! And when he wasn’t doing that or finding other ways to advance liberalism like burglarizing the office of his opponent or rewarding the worst elements of the […]
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Travels with Erik (II)

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On May 30, 2015
So I’m at the Fighting Inequality conference in DC, which is mostly a labor history conference. I see a paper by a young scholar you many know named Steven Attewell and it’s really good. I give a paper saying the IWW free speech fights were a disaster and it goes over well with the right […]

Nixon on Hillary

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On April 9, 2015

Above: The two kindest, gentlest men in American history. What did Richard Nixon think of Hillary Clinton? Well, this is probably about the easiest question in the world to answer. Mr. Nixon praised B

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