Archive for November, 2007

The Scott Nybakken Guide to CONQUERING ALL MEDIA

I stopped reading comics about a year ago and have almost entirely resisted reading about them online for the past half-year (you know, ever since DC unveiled the fifty-two new universes and Darkseid, Monarch, and the Monitors started fighting for control of them — or so I hear on the street, not that I, y’know, […]

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Retro-Journal: Ron Paul for President — in 1988 (plus P.J. O’Rourke and more)

I saw presidential candidate Ron Paul on a talk show — and was very skeptical.
It was July of 1988, and Ron Paul, then running as the Libertarian Party candidate, appeared on The Morton Downey, Jr. Show, an almost self-parodic harbinger of shoutfest shows to come, complete with a microphone stand referred to as “The Loudmouth,” […]

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