Scott Howard

My kingdom for a normal urban governing class. Even if it's never Republican, as long as it's normal.

I'm sure nothing will go wrong here.

there are so many astroturfed conservatives against CAHSR because the second that there is a working train between 2 cities in the US that can hit 200mph it is fundamentally over for the argument of "that doesn't work here" The oil lobby will do everything possible to stop that

Is the presumption here that the US will bomb nations who refuse to buy USTs?

“Who wants to be Hoover?” has always been the domestic political question for resetting the US economy. Only it usually sounded like some combination of painful financial reforms. Oil fires in the Gulf, had somebody proposed them, would have sounded needlessly theatrical, indirect, and only partially effective.

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It has always been pretty evident that Gatsby was supposed to be Jewish. It makes a lot more sense if Tom’s bigotry is aimed at him. Also American class politics are not rigid enough to explain why Daisy never considers him a serious option, even when he shows richer than her terrible husband and offering to rescue her from her bad marriage. An ethnic/racial angle is always implied. And, of course, his name, Gatz, sounds Jewish and he’s in business with Meyer Wolfsheim who is explicitly Jewish. Not surprising that he was written as Jewish and 1920s era editors encouraged Fitzgerald to make this less explicit.