Dr. M.A. Davis

"The problem here is voters are stupid and we need them to be less stupid." the times we live in

hell I really had that muddled! okay, my bad - thanks for the correct.

ah! well weird and space fanboyism, that's Barton for you. there's a reason why his most famous literary collaboration was with Newt Gingrich.

Wars We Never Fought A collection of essays examining how armed conflict functions as a subject, theme, metaphor, symbol, or plot device in popular works of speculative fiction, inc…

you should and it should be this one - www.bloomsbury.com/us/wars-we-n...

Russo-Georgian War - Wikipedia

I've read an argument that it was the Russo-Georgian War that did the trick - Obama needed somebody with significant FP experience in that context. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-G...

"oh Resurrection Day is grim because of the declining post-nuclear US" that's nothing.

give me Curtis LeMay, the beloved savior of America, lighting a cigar when the protagonist accuses him of starting the war with the USSR on his own. "worked, didn't it?"

ooh, here's a fun one -
"watch DUCK AND COVER. now watch this active shooter training video. compare and contrast. what does this say about the two societies, etc."

it doesn't surprise me that it would take someone of Barton's politics to actually put that to print - the probable reality of a Cuban War 'feels' wrong, because it 'feels' like you're arguing LeMay was right.

with your students specifically I might pull out GRIFFITH or HILLBILLIES or HAZZARD and ask them what that says about how people saw the South in postwar America.

(I've recently been reading TUBE OF PLENTY for my forthcoming Andy Griffith project, and "what do we talk about when we are trying not to talk about anything, and what does that say about us?" is a fun conversation, especially if you make it current.)

you don't tell them that particular thing - but they still have a lot of use. "so we agree the Donna Reed Show seemed boring? well here's Donna Reed complaining that her show is stilted and boring. why do you think TV shows of this era were Like This?" then bang you hit them with McCarthyism.

come to think of it that's a recurring lesson. not just in US history either

"you can find a lot of people on the Internet talking this era up but those people are dopes and suckers."

hey that sounds pretty good

well that's easy - to discourage RETVRN memes

people will say "oh they should have sold themselves better," and maybe. there are many reasons people give to not vote for the party of Black people, and queer people, and working people, but they all end up in the same place - where we are today.

"buddy I'm getting out of here"

if you give tyrants control of all three branches of government they will do tyrannical things

at the end of the day, people should have voted for Cunningham, Barnes, Casey, and especially Harris.

your partner is different than the person you are dating, especially if the latter is particularly fresh. (oh god is this that polyamory the youth talk about)

there's a difference between a barrier that appears during a relationship and a barrier that appears at the start of a relationship

it's a bad court - when the good things come, that's good!

I don't mean "tee-hee they're racist" though sure, there is dated content. just that this style of writing has not really survived post the late Victorian period. www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5...

you can think that maybe we should means-test welfare and guard the border or what have you, but you can look at the guys across the table and know they're spinach and always have been.

the Gallego-Kelly axis makes me think some of it is coming into politics in Trumpian times.

ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K2YJ-3VB/... hmm. you may be thinking of a third WC, as the ages don't line up for this one.

if you've ever wondered why the British WC (hee hee) published under the name Winston _S._ Churchill, it was explicitly to avoid confusion with this then-much more famous writer!

glad Mehmet Oz isn't a Senator, not glad Fetterman is Senator.

so it's possible to imagine a scenario where he gets the US into WWI early, Gallipoli succeeds, and then President Churchill and PM Churchill are present at Versailles postwar. that's fun!

Cornish Colony: Cast of the Masque. Photo courtesy of NPS. #2242. ‘A Masque of Ours, The Gods and the Golden Bowl’ program. 1905. Photograph of printed program. SAGA 8.

he tried in 1906 to become Governor, then again in 1912, first as a Republican then as a Bull Mooser, and failed both times. (he was a bit too much of a radical for party regulars.)

I can picture him as POTUS when WWI breaks out - and eastern Progressives who backed TR tended to be jingos.