this is just a long way of saying "pay attention to me, I'm so lonely"

Milton Wright
April 21, 1857

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John A. Volpe - Wikipedia

Volpe was of the "we should improve society somewhat" generation of Republican - an advocate of Black civil rights because of empathy he felt as a fellow victim of discrimination, being the son of Italian immigrants. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A....

I wonder what happens if Nixon takes John Volpe (a boringly compentent Italian-American from Massachusetts) as his VP in 1968 instead. (Volpe was top runner-up when Nixon picked Agnew.)

#wrightposting has introduced me to the joys of later edits - sometimes in fun ways, as when Milton mentions that the son of a family he was friendly with is now an opium addict.

is it punching left - or punching right?

we could use more policymakers who think that yes the alien Other will replace the Anglo-Saxon but that's okay, that's just life.

sad how these horrible ideologies tore an innocently evil society apart. banana?

"talking at length about the author's Sex Things" is in the fine Rand tradition.

Chuck and Fred embodied the socialism to come.

I liked the idea of virtual gender representation being overturned by actual gender representation.

one of my favorite bits re:gender is from THE LIVES OF DAX, w/Lela Dax, a woman in the Trill governing council. she mentions that the government line is that joined Trill are beings of multiple genders so they represent all genders. and yet for 'some reason', the council is almost all dudes.

in the same vein, we make TV shows about how great cops are because of how many people who watch TV like cops.

very much of the late 2000s (critical)

I am a big believer in WJB but expecting the politics of today to conform to the politics of 130 years ago would as if Bryan had expected the politics of the 1760s to work for him.

I have a lot of personal issues w/DELIVERANCE.

well, a lot of those other countries think Americans are dumb for asking basic questions like "so how do you elect your President over here?" and "How do you protect First Amendment rights under your legal system?"

in all fairness, the Dems of the 20s were simultaneously the party of the immigrant _and_ the party of the Klan, which of course did not work very well!

oh good! sorry, maybe I'm too easily worried.

oh dear - everything okay, James?

my favorite space program AH is Baxter's VOYAGE, where NASA successfully lands a woman on Mars (long story) in the 1980s, because it's one of the few works that understands that math is real. (in that universe, NASA doesn't do anything _but_ the Mars mission, because they're not made of money)

there was a recent "teens trapped with a serial killer" movie with the conceit that this was happening in the context of a viral pandemic spread from teens to adults, so there'd be no safety for them from authority figures.

Hanna Jameson's THE LAST is "murderer on the loose in fancy hotel, the suspects can't just leave" story where the gimmick is that there was recently a nuclear holocaust and there really is nowhere to go.

a returning fascination of mine

The Paul Wesley vehicle HISTORY OF EVIL is a "genre is possible because of other genre happening" story - the main characters can't leave the spooky haunted house because they're refugees from a Gilead-style regime.

trying to think of other works like this -

you never (or at least _I_ never) hear an Andrew Lloyd Webber piece and think "nothing's there in that music."

I like to think this question has been asked around one of the Mamdani family tables at least once

"Universally Tenured Intellectuals" wait no don't like that one

I'm going to say three letters and a number, just ideas to put them on the table:

TT4A

Thaddeus S. C. Lowe - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeu... this of course omits Lowe's period living in fin-de-siècle Oz, where he led the anti-royalist forces during the civil unrest of the period before his return flight to California in 1900.

Milton Wright
April 20, 1857

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