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The Invitational Week 195: Get Us Prewrite!
Hello. Have you heard of Tom Jefferson’s famously bad first draft of the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence? You probably have, because it has been one of the most celebrated winning entries in the quasi-illustrious history...
In Defense of Hannibalism
Andrew Johnson, left, and Hannibal Hamlin, right.
That’s Abraham Lincoln’s first vice president on the right, and his second vice president on the left. They look kind of alike. As it happens, they weren’t alike at all, and the difference...
On Overconfidence....
I know I don’t have to tell you what a wonderfully terrible time Donald Trump and his wretched Republican guard have been enduring, and how their chances of holding on to Congress have been collapsing like a Jenga stack in an earthquake. An...
Back When The Media Had Guts
Westbrook Pegler, H.L. Mencken, Henry A. Wallace
It happened on Friday, July 23, 1948 at a press conference at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. The air was thick with smoke from cigarettes and stogies. This was just before the...
The Vampire Diary
The notice of my suspected senility arrived by email.
It was from the Washington, D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles, informing me that in order to renew my driver’s license, I must get a doctor to certify that I am physically and mentally...
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