Tag: Reagan Era
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The Ballad of Bill and Bud
Bill lived free in his truck-bed camper. Every summer he’d roll into town with his wife and two daughters, stock up at the local grocery store, and park under the Ponderosa pines, where he lived free of rent and indoor plumbing in the shadow of the volcano. He was not a tall man, but he…
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Waypoint 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & The Birth of Outrage Media
from Chapter 3, The Blasted Heath “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” — Anonymous, often misattributed to Plato “I don’t need scientific proof — because the people promoting global warming are frauds.” — Rush Limbaugh In 1778, far from home, shivering and doubtful of their…
No Shortcuts to Now 