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#193  [archive]
10/17/2023

The Atomic Cafe (1982)
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This is a documentary about how Americans learned to love the atomic bomb, via newsreels with happy music, propaganda films, movie clips, even in pop tunes. … [read more]

On my first day at kindergarten, I pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. It’s one of my earliest memories.Our teacher, Miss Brandt, briefly explained what we were about to do. … [read more]

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#373  [archive]

     Should I say something about the latest killfest in the Middle East? Probably, but I have no original thoughts about it. … [read more]

I don’t want to shave or comb my hair, and I don’t want to pay a barber, so once monthly I’ve been taking clippers to my head, and chopping my hair down to stubble. … [read more]

At his birth, Roscoe Arbuckle weighed 16 pounds — a very big boy. Always chubby, he was taunted at school as “Fatty”, and the name stuck.His … [read more]

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#192  [archive]
Liberty 37, China 9 (1978)
a/k/a China 9, Liberty 37
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Monte Hellman is best known for the hot asphalt Two-Lane Blacktop, but he ought to be better known. … [read more]

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#372  [archive]

• Two families got fed up with their states’ politics. So they moved out.
    To say plainly what Republicans are wouldn’t be
‘impartial journalism’, so the New York Times, like most of mainstream media,
contorts the facts to look fair and balanced. … [read more]

My grandmother was married and divorced three times, which was scandalous for the 1930s. It wasn’t a topic she talked about when I was a kid, but I once asked my dad about it. … [read more]