Also, my posts should be taken as conversation-starters there is no expectation of “staying on topic,”and some of the best threads have gone in entirely unexpected directions.
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You will not only get your purchases, you will get my blessings and a karmic boost! (I don’t otherwise participateĪnd you can support my book habit without even spending money on me by following my Amazon links to do your shopping (if, of course, you like shopping on Amazon) As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases (I get a small percentage of every dollar spent while someone is following my referral links), and every month I get a gift certificate that allows me to buy a few books (or, if someone has bought a big-ticket item, even more). If your preferred feed is Twitter, you can follow to get My name is Steve Dodson I’m a retired copyeditor currently living in western Massachusetts after many years in New York City. and essentially powerless whereas pseudo-intellectuals constituted a far more numerous bloc of voters that it was accordingly imprudent to anger.Ĭommented-On Language Hat Posts (courtesy of J.C.
My favorite bit of contemporaneous Agnew commentary is an old Art Buchwald piece explaining how the VP had made a grave political miscalculation by attacking “pseudo-intellectuals” because actual intellectuals were few and far between in the U.S. Rather a lot changed rather rapidly after 1966, and lots of politicians with thitherto “progressive” records had diverse reactions to the chaotic and violent developments of 1968 (whether in the U.S. But not only wikipedia but I think anyone who’s ever studied the matter accepts that Agnew won his election as Governor of Maryland because of crossover votes from liberal Democrats who were unhappy that their party had, via a messy primary, nominated someone from the not-quite-ready-to-move-past-Jim-Crow wing (the last vestiges of Jim Crow in early ’60’s Maryland are depicted rather comically in Hairspray, but they were real). Well, political image is a funny thing, since Nixon was widely perceived at the time as much more conservative (within the spectrum of politically active Republicans of the day) than he actually was in hindsight.
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