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Oz
Imagine sitting at a dinner setting with a half dozen people. You query the group and challenge, name a catchphrase or tagline from the Wizard of Oz. Can you make it around the table? Certainly. Twice? Perhaps. I am not listing any here because it is quite likely they are flying around in your…
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Why? What was your favorite movies when you were six years old? Sixteen? Twenty six? What is the best film you have seen in the last five years? Ten? Twenty? Has your opinion of a particular film changed? For the past ten to fifteen years I (Cary) has…
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Two Terms, Two Returns
On March 4, 1889, the outgoing First Lady of the United States said “I want you to take good care of all the furniture and ornaments in the house, and not let any of them get lost or broken, for I want to find everything just as it is now, when we come back again…
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Boring Historical Data 2024
This is the second to last blog of my presidential election series. Thank you for reading any. If you made it this far, there may be something worth reading at the end. It’s almost election day and we (those nerds like me who follow the news TOO much) are exhausted. For some reason…
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Disenfranchised
“Get Out and Vote” was a folksy song that blasted every Election Day out of our AM radio in the kitchen when I was growing up over fifty years ago. My parents always did, taking me into the curtained voting booths until the kindly ladies working the polling stations said I was too old.…
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From Joe’s Basement
March 2020 is a time most people will remember where they were and what they were doing when the nation, the world, shut down. COVID-19, a Coronavirus, hit our shores and you know the rest. You lived it. 2020 was a presidential election year. Donald Trump sought reelection, and a mass stable of Democrats…
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The Morning After- November 9, 2016
On the morning of November 9, 2016, I pulled into the faculty parking lot of my school since 1987. I was tired as I was up late; yesterday was Election Day and I stayed up as late as I could knowing I would crash in a haze of fatigue in the last class or two…
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Microtargeting
In the early hours of November 7, 2012, Mitt Romney’s wife Ann cried inconsolably and asked his campaign staff, “How did this happen?” According to Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s campaign chronicle Double Down, his vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan was equally confident. Romney had penned an acceptance speech but NOT a concession speech. That’s self-assurance.…
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Little Things Matter
When I was growing up, as part of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, another cartoon was embedded within titled The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show. That show featured a time-traveling device called the ‘Wayback Machine.’ Since my presidential blog series is getting closer to the present, and recent events are not long ago, please place…
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John Kerry and Swift Boating
In 2004 two blue bloods faced off in the presidential election. Incumbent President George Walker Bush was challenged by John Forbes Kerry. Both hailed from aristocratic families of the northeast, although Bush’s father, the forty-first president, had migrated to Texas after serving as a naval combat pilot in World War II. Kerry was born in…
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