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This is why I could never be a military historian
A big part of the reason I stopped watching the History Channel eons ago was that I grew tired of the constant assault of programming fixated on the Second World War. It seemed like there was always s… more →
Springtime for Dubcek ... and Slovakia!
This is why I could never be a military historian
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scootage81 wrote 3 weeks ago: A big part of the reason I stopped watching the History Channel eons ago was that I grew tired of th … more →
NPR: Orientalist ignorance masquerades behind veil of liberal cosmopolitanism
scootage81 wrote 1 month ago: Many, many months ago I happened to become a “fan” of NPR on Facebook, probably by accid … more →
The greatest hyperbole in the world
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scootage81 wrote 2 months ago: Here’s an actual screen shot, captured moments ago, from the New York Times web site’s f … more →
On Czech-Slovak rivalry
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scootage81 wrote 5 months ago: The good: the NYT has an article about Slovakia and the ongoing rivalry between Slovaks and Czechs ( … more →
The most interesting man in the universe
scootage81 wrote 6 months ago: If you haven’t had the good fortune or sense to watch the Stanley Cup Finals on the CBC (and y … more →
Those who forget the past ...
scootage81 wrote 6 months ago: … miss offensive historical references. The publisher of a newspaper in Warren, Pa., is scramb … more →
A new report: The American Way officially sucks
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scootage81 wrote 6 months ago: New international unemployment are forthcoming, and when the data are crunched, it’s expected … more →
The world is on Facebook
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scootage81 wrote 7 months ago: It’s true. (Sort of.) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has created a model of what it would loo … more →
The gay tax
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scootage81 wrote 7 months ago: Here’s an interesting read via NPR about how the tragically named “Defense of Marriage A … more →
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scootage81 wrote 7 months ago: A hilarious analogy used in an LA Times piece about the latest chapter in the ongoing and bizarre sa … more →
And it couldn't have happened to a more deserving justice
scootage81 wrote 7 months ago: I love this story about how a class of Fordham law students has managed to cheese Antonin Scalia. Se … more →
An Orientalist perspective on Cairo traffic
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scootage81 wrote 7 months ago: I saw the blurb for this story by Christian Fraser about chaotic Cairo traffic and clicked with grea … more →
What exactly are they teaching parishioners in church anyway?
scootage81 wrote 7 months ago: According to a new survey, people who attend church services more regularly are more likely to endor … more →
Derby depravity
scootage81 wrote 7 months ago: Talk of the Kentucky Derby and mint juleps makes me think of Kentucky Colonels. Not Colonel Sanders, … more →
I can think of plenty of folks at Fox News I'd like to see waterboarded
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scootage81 wrote 7 months ago: This would be awesome. NEW YORK (AP) – Keith Olbermann says he’ll continue to pressSean … more →
Mr. Donaldson, the van is here to take you to Shady Acres
scootage81 wrote 7 months ago: Count longtime ABC journalist Sam Donaldson as a prominent nutjob. On the Sunday morning program … more →
Walking on the side of the information superhighway
scootage81 wrote 7 months ago: An interesting story from Macworld about how the United States lags behind much of the world in term … more →
On burger and Wall Street monstrosities
scootage81 wrote 8 months ago: Doctors think a minor league novelty, the “Fifth Third Burger” on sale this season at th … more →
Praise Canada
scootage81 wrote 8 months ago: Spotted via Sme, a clip from some Fox News program bashing Canada for all the usual stereotypical re … more →
