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Snail Facials Are All the Rage, and Dolly Parton Opens an Online Store
Weird fashion news from across the internet.
Komplaint Dept. - Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan, Part II
J.G. Ballard's short fiction, "Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan," is a remarkable and remarkably prescient piece written in 1967, 13 years prior to Reagan's nomination as his party's candidate for president.
The Quaint Paranoia of the Nixon Tapes
The fidelity of the recordings won’t knock Robin Thicke off the top of the charts, as the quality is pretty come and go. But the release of the last of the Nixon tapes recalls a time before everyone listened to everyone.
Reading 'Born Again' in Jail
I’ve spent the last year or so in a federal lock-up awaiting trial on charges that have been duly analyzed elsewhere. Long story short: I’m facing decades in prison...
When Astronauts Spent Thanksgiving in Quarantine for Fear of Moon Disease
For astronauts, returning from the Moon wasn’t a simple matter of splashing down, handing NASA the lunar samples and material, and going home.
On the Road with Obama and Romney - Part V
I started thinking about writing an obituary for George McGovern four days ago, when the news came out of Sioux Falls that the senator was in hospice and, as the family put it, "nearing the end." But I waited too long, and I know that now every...
Mourning the Moon Men: A Memorandum
The Presidential PR of things in the case of an Apollo XI failure.
If They Couldn't Come Back from the Moon
''Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay to rest in peace," Nixon says to the camera. "For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world...
Nixon Library Exhibits Dirty Laundry of Watergate
The Watergate exhibit opened at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Why not go have a gander at some of the nation's most infamous dirty laundry.