The Shade of the Cloud of Arrows

"It occurred to me, in California in June and in Atlanta in July and in New Orleans in August, in the course of watching first the California primary and then the Democratic and Republican national conventions, that it had not been by accident that the people with whom I had preferred to spend time in high school had, on the whole, hung out in gas stations." -- Joan Didion

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Le Chutzpah

Newt Gingrich has released an ad in South Carolina that mocks Mitt Romney for speaking French (like an overeducated Taxachusetts sissy). Below, a page from Dr. Newton Leroy Gingrich's 1971 Tulane University dissertation in Belgian colonial history (click to enlarge):

Chris Bray at 4:37 PM

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Chris Bray: Itinerant historian, former infantry soldier, and the author of "Court-Martial: How Military Justice has Shaped America, from the Revolution to 9/11 and Beyond," forthcoming from W.W. Norton.

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Le Chutzpah

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