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Yep. it's another GLoP and this month, we've got some Rank Punditry® on a certain ex-President's legal trouble (consider yourself warned, Spatial Dendrites), a GLoP tribute to the retiring Pat Sajak, bad English accents, another installment of the GLoP Book Nook, and more.
John Podhoretz
Jonah Goldberg
Rob Long
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Aside from some (sadly predictable) spite about Trump, not much here.
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Ah, the sh**holiness of old San Francisco. Thanks for the memories.
But before the conversation reached that point, I had interrupted it to watch a few clips from Being There, one of which showed Chance the gardener leaving his comfortable nest and walking the sh**holy streets of Washington, DC during that same era of the late ‘70s. It’s as if any socioeconomic progress, made at great cost and effort in the last 45 years, has been completely transitory.
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Nters need to read John Milton and what he said about Mammon. Mammon turned to Lucifer and said something like, "Let us abandon heaven and make hell as beautiful as it can be. Let us make hell so beautiful that we will not miss heaven."
Instead Nters are like atheists who are so busy complaining about Christianity they cannot make anything of beauty or worth.
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A good example of why these guys shouldn't be doing political commentary. Yes, it's supposed to be a show talking about entertainment, but the country is turning into a banana republic and these guys are bored with it.
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I watched the mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man, at least part of it, when it first came out, and when it became available on VHS video, I watched the whole thing about 10 years after it was first released.
It was only recently that I read Irwin Shaw's novel. For context, it's about a group of people who graduate from high school in 1945. The war ends as they come into adulthood. So it's a novel about the post World War II generation. The Vietnam War is referenced quite a bit in Irwin's sequel, Beggerman, Thief which also covers the children of the Rich Man characters.
What I found interesting about both the Rich Man television and novel versions is how much short shrift is given the Korean War, where male class of 1945 graduates would have been subject to. In the novel, maybe one paragraph mentions the conflict, and how Jordy gets out of the draft.
It's called the forgotten war for a reason.
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