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Crash History #36: World War I

Posted on 2013-09-29 by GaryAugust 26, 2013
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Full course at this link. by … Continue reading →

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Crash Course #35: Imperialism

Posted on 2013-09-22 by GaryAugust 26, 2013
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Full course at this link. by … Continue reading →

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This Thai commercial is a three-minute movie

Posted on 2013-09-17 by GarySeptember 21, 2013
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Link: http://youtu.be/7s22HX18wDY by … Continue reading →

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Crash History #34: Nationalism

Posted on 2013-09-15 by GaryAugust 26, 2013
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A surprising sharp drop in life expectancy for a subset of Americans

Posted on 2013-09-14 by GaryMay 18, 2015
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This is strange news: According to an article by Monica Potts in The American Prospect magazine (an excellent publication, by the way), over the past 18 years, the life expectancy of white American women who are not high school graduates … Continue reading →

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Americans increasingly cluster geographically by political views

Posted on 2013-09-13 by GarySeptember 17, 2013
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You might have seen recent reports about groups of rural counties in Colorado, California, and Maryland where the locals want to secede from their respective states in order to form new (very tiny) ones. Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo … Continue reading →

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More on business versus the GOP

Posted on 2013-09-12 by GarySeptember 10, 2013
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A National Journal article by Jill Lawrence last month makes a number of points related to those in the New York Times piece I mentioned yesterday. While a lot of business owners and managers obviously tend to be pro-Republican, they’re … Continue reading →

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A different “Putin on the Ritz” video

Posted on 2013-09-12 by GarySeptember 12, 2013
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Or in Cyrillic, Путин он зе Ритц. This is just weird (as well as illustrative of what’s possible with motion tracking in special effects software). It’s from back in 2008, which explains why Vladimir’s dancing partner is then-President George W … Continue reading →

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Corporate influence on politics exaggerated?

Posted on 2013-09-11 by GarySeptember 17, 2013
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I sometimes hear it suggested that almost all political problems can be blamed on the financial clout of corporations. Indeed, it’s obviously true that corporations do have a lot of influence. Even before the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that … Continue reading →

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Ask a slave at Mount Vernon

Posted on 2013-09-09 by GarySeptember 7, 2013
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Actress Azie Mira Dungey worked at Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home portraying one of the Washingtons’ household slaves. She’s now created a web series based on some of the questions she was asked by tourists (some reasonable, some naïve, some … Continue reading →

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