Randall Stephens
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American historian, religion, environment, pop culture, the South. Author: The Devil's Music (Harvard, 2018). Prof of Am & Brit Studies, Univ of Oslo. Fulbright alumnus.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer cartoonist Alex Cook on the GOP's McCarthy dilemma, March 1954.
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Alex Cook's March 1954 cartoon about CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow's criticism of Senator McCarthy.
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Homer in a Florida courtroom: “Drunken hicks of the jury...”
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Share of population enrolled in Obamacare plans and change in enrollment from 2020 to 2025.
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"Now if I can just keep the nation in the dark for three more years..." Ray Osrin, Plain Dealer, 11/11/1973.
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"I've just about had it up to here with Watergate." Ray Osrin, Plain Dealer, 11/6/1973.
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"'Goodness gracious!' cried Dick. 'The tapes! They've disappeared!..." Jeff MacNelly, November 1973. #JohnSirica #RichardNixon #Watergate
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Bowie on Midnight Special, Nov 16, 1973.
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What is your word for a small round bread? Light yellow areas represent respondents who selected the indicated variant. "Cob"???
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“Do foot and cut rhyme for you?”
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"KENNEDY: The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions."
Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy's new memoir is unusually revealing
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who stepped down from the court in 2018, has written a book about his life on the court and off. It's far more revealing than most books written by justices.
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I think I've located their headquarters... right between Planet Meatball Sandwiches and the Springfield Laundromat.
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Roy Justus on Congress bowing to King Richard, October 1973.
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Bill Mauldin on the survival strategy of Nixon, October 1973
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Map from Max Greene, The Kanzas Region: Forest, Prairie, Desert, Mountain, Vale, and River (1856).
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“This is quintessential Robinson/Kanin stuff: the small sting of public humiliation festering to the point that it consumes a character’s entire being.In Ron’s case, the swing dancer who flips his wife over at a wedding is the chair that collapses beneath him following a big corporate presentation.”
The Chair Company's premiere is all in Tim Robinson's head
The Chair Company's premiere is all in Tim Robinson's head
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I still think about this Summer Fun set from Playmobil I saw at a toy store years ago.
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This is how the conservative, US-backed Nicaraguan President Adolfo Díaz Recinos handled political opponents. From the Toledo Blade, July 27, 1911.
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Legal status of conversion therapy for minors
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Cam Skattebo had one of the greatest high school highlights of all time in the California state championship game (he had 393 yards and 3 TDs and they won)
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Andy Gregar, 1900-1915, Mt Calvary, Kansas City, KS.