Barbaric Idiots
It isn’t necessary to look for evidence that the right wing is insane, but it’s fun. A small example that dropped my jaw on Friday night. I was watching McLaughlin...
Read MoreHobsbawm: On History
A friend and colleague, Dave, appeared in my office on Friday to show me this description of a talk being given here at Cornell on colonialism and Okinawa. Dave is...
Read MoreI Never Wore Tie Dye!
If a blogh is not a place to reveal ones deepest shame I don’t know what is. So I am going to confess that for a number of years in high school I was that most...
Read MoreAin’t No Molehill High Enough
In the late 80’s and early 90’s, when the Soviet Union was collapsing, one of my oldest friends married a Russian woman he had met in the Ukraine. She didn’t love...
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THE MAN WHO CAN'T DIE
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GAHA: BABES OF THE ABYSS
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