Non-Resident Fellow. He might not be paid.

Follow-up to last week’s Throwback Thursday on my visit to the Postal Museum. For most of U.S. history the post office was a really big deal. Actually, it still is. Also—at the end, there’s a cool surprise!

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Gross.

Visit to the Postal Museum II: The National Nervous System Throwback Thursday

For Throwback Thursday here’s part 2 of my visit to the Smithsonian Postal Museum. The post office was central to the establishment and growth of the nation. Also, I drove a postal truck and inspired a movie. To get the full story, read on…

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Assessing the legacy of the late Vice President Cheney is a complicated business—but I give it a shot (VPs are my things!) And bonus, the greatest photo of Dick Cheney ever taken!

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Could anti-gerrymandering work for the Democrats as a national issue? Require all states to have bipartisan districting commissions? It might cost them in the short-run, but it'd be good for the country in the long-run.

Thoughts on Dick Cheney’s role as vice president and his influence in the administration of George W. Bush. Despite rumors, Cheney was no puppet-master, but he consistently enabled unwise decisions. We’re still paying the price.

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Watching election night coverage. When votes come in they call it “big dumps” and I laugh uncontrollably.

Dick and the Decider: Cheney's Legacy A Tale of Vice Presidential Influence

Vice President Dick Cheney died yesterday. I never met him, but he gave me my start as a Veepologist. He inspired my dissertation, but also to look deeper into national security decision-making because we got so many things so wrong.

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First media hit of the day, with AFP on the late Dick Cheney. Will there be others? Anyone want to talk about our most influential VP with one of the world's top Veepologists?

Republican Veepstakes 2028 Enter the MAGAverse

Rubio? VPs are my thing and I did an analysis of both parties’ 2028 Veepstakes. open.substack.com/pub/aaronman...

More enshittification!

Sounds like the next episode of Loot on AppleTV.

It’s Sunday afternoon, why relax with my review of Netflix’s The Diplomat and the role vice presidents play in the show.

Don’t fall behind on reading “Down the Hall” we’ve got Vance news and a review of Netflix's “House of Dynamite” coming up this week!

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If you liked my musings here. I do a substack on vice presidents (topic of my PhD dissertation). It uses the vice presidency as a window into politics. Since we're talking about nukes, I've got an upcoming post about the Netflix movie "House of Dynamite"
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The Blue Jays can still win if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.

Anyone remember the Kinsella novel the Iowa Baseball Confederacy? Not the one made into the movie Field of Dreams (Shoeless Joe Comes to Iowa.) In IBC the 1908 Chicago Cubs come to play a local team in Iowa. Game goes into a temporal vortex and goes on endlessly. Just asking, no reason.

Truth.

Find myself drawn to the Blue Jays. Canada needs this.

That’d be on-brand.

Chillingly accurate!

Trump might nuke Toronto if the Jays win.

Look, I don't care how much you all love sports, you can't be posting like that as long as Donald has the nukes without at least mentioning you're talking about baseball.

Sorry Dodgers, but right now decent Americans are rooting for the Blue Jays.

Down the Hall heads into new territory—studying fictional vice presidents. This post looks at the VPs in Netflix series The Diplomat. Fun show, but it shouldn’t be taken as an accurate depiction of politics, which doesn’t mean it isn’t worth examining.

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Imagined Veeps: Analyzing The Diplomat on Netflix A new frontier for Veepology

Today we’re analyzing the fictional vice presidents in the Netflix series The Diplomat. Is the depiction realistic? What does the depiction of the VPs tell us about politics? All this, and more in this ground-breaking installment of Down the Hall!

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A footnote in the horrors of the 21st century, the anthrax attack, coming radio after 9/11, helped tip our national feeling from resolve to panic and set our decision-makers on a disastrous path.

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Visit to the Postal Museum I: Echoes of Anthrax Throwback Thursday

It’s Throwback Thursday, so I’m sharing my thoughts from a decade ago—anthrax! It’s been mostly forgotten in all of the insanity this century has brought (so far!) But it helped move the needle towards crazy and maybe tipped the scales. Plus a VP angle!
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Truth!