Archive for May, 2008

Looking For A Few Good Men

Every day is Christmas as Rick Perlstein travels our great nation flogging Nixonland. His new tellings of old anecdotes unfold amidst his amazement at people’s lack of knowledge about Richard Nixon’s sordid roots.
Newest example: Perlstein being asked again and again about king of all media and 1968 Nixon […]

Home Alone
A promised summer exhibit of entries is postponed, but White House Redux contestants will be battling it out for the favor of judges until Fall.
The goal is redesigning the two hundred year old presidential mansion to reflect it’s present lofty status. There are 831 contest entries, and […]

Fauxing It In
The George W. Bush Library-To-Be’s failure to secure likely website names has been the subject of speculation over future confusion. The future is now here.
The anti-Bushite at theruminationsofoldnfeeble has confused georgewbush.org with the real deal, and is suitably outraged.

“There he is. In all his finest, chest-puffing commander-in-chief regalia. […]

Get Me Central
Thrilling new tapes from the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library are released, showing his intense identification with Israel.
All well and good, but tales of American presidents and the plucky Jewish State are beginning to get mushy. We’ve had Harry Truman’s recognition of Israel commemorated, a hideous Kennedy memorial defaces the Jerusalem […]

Craggy!
South Dakota’s favorite sons look down on an aspirant.