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“But his (Truman’s) judgement is cavalier seriously underestimating, as it does, the American capacity for intolerance. It unleashes within America a series of witch hunts that last for a decade. The “Communist threat”, the “Red Scare”, the “Communist Conspiracy” all, in some real measure, overwhelm the sanity Truman took for granted. “Almost all states introduced […]

and on The Milton Berle Show! “Since-a-my-baby-left-me….” It was a seminal song. In San Francisco when I was eight, I sang it, rotating my leg at the hip trying to be just like Elvis.  This it turns out was more or less exactly what Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Keith Richards were doing […]

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.” This is our […]

The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com) So what kind of medium is the web if the boundaries are so unclear, and if the fundamental question is WWIC? This is from an interview with MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey: What makes MetaFilter a success? Matt: I’d like to think it’s intense moderation and customer service. […]

In the cold, nearly colorless light of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north. A foot or more of snow covered the landscape, the remnants of a Christmas storm that had blanketed Massachusetts from one end of the province to the other. Beneath the snow, after […]

Then he drops it down a notch, but not much, and yells, “Okay, they tole me you was out there.” He drops his voice some more. “Tonight,” he tells the crowd, “we have with us Mick Jagger and Keith Richards from the great Rolling Stones.” Then he yells, “An I taught ‘em EVERYTHING THEY KNOW […]

Few books I have read on the effects of technology on culture have stood the test of time as well as Amusing Ourselves to Death. “It may be true, as Charles Beard wrote, that the primary motivation of the writers of the United States Constitution was the protection of their economic interests. But it is also […]