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Urging Hollywood to Drop All the Remakes
Dan McLaughlin of National Review Online questions a current cinematic trend. It’s not just our presidential election that’s in reruns these days. The past decade or so has seen a…
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The chief of staff and Trump voters
Noah Bierman offers Los Angeles Times readers interesting observations about the Trump administration’s chief of staff. In the roughly three months since President Trump chose John F. Kelly as his…
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Nostalgia
This is a big reason why I don’t teach. In the radical days when I was getting certified to teach, we were told there was a difference between educators and…
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Retro
Reading papers about town, it seems just about every local government has joined the bandwagon to oppose Duke bringing power to the people. Something there is that loves those disease-infested,…
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O’Rourke ponders the perplexing permanence of 1960s nostalgia
P.J. O’Rourke probes for TIME magazine readers the ongoing fascination with a decade most living Americans never witnessed. Feb. 9 marks the 50th anniversary of one more 1960s changed-the-world-forever thing.…
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Mount Airy needs to abandon the ‘Mayberry strategy’
NYT parachutes into Mount Airy, ponders the well-worn ‘Mayberry strategy’: In 2010, the 50th anniversary of the show drew 50,000 people to the annual Mayberry Days festival, held each September.…
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With Finials and Nostalgia from the New Deal Era
Money is scarce, scarce, scarce for government. But if you spend it, you can create jobs. (No, no. I am not trying to understand. I am just repeating.) Therefore, the…
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Re: Friday Folllies
This was tough, as I couldn’t remember a single movie I really liked that was released during my high school years. I assumed I had not seen a movie at…
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Local Video History
If you watched ACC basketball telecasts anytime from about 1974 to 1980, you know exactly what this is. In fact, you probably never got the chorus out of your head…
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Is it really nostalgia?
George Will and John Hood both complain about nostalgia as a basis for policy-making and base their columns on farms this week. I think Hood’s argument against the family farm…
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Re: ‘Scuse me…
You guys are bringing back memories of frivolity past.
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Sky with diamonds
This is the second time I’ve read Ogi Overman’s vision for downtown: Elm will have been renamed and transformed into a magical place that takes us back to our childhood,…