Tucker Saglio

(Adjunct) Professor of History
(Not) Michael Diamond in a captain's outfit

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@faceuh8 sworp, I think.

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@faceuh8 Post-Iannucci VEEP was too broad, but they really made the broadness work as an inflection in the final season.

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@ZODIAC_MF There are, in fact, several episodes that contrast Tony's low-rent money with actual wealth, earned by actual rich people, who are actually self-controlled and intelligent.

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@OVTweetmarck In New Hampshire, one set of political ads promises good governance and lower costs, while the other promises lower costs and good governance. Wild stuff.

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@rightwingnutrs My understanding is that everyone in SC has to pick between Clemson and USC.

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@WB_Baskerville Hard to call something impressionistic (or utterly incoherent, if you prefer) "definitive."

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@arguablywrong @St_Rev There's a decent track record of really, really smart people being the most moral of us. Aristotle, Siddartha, Confucius, Jesus, etc.

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@jimgeraghty Many people in my town leave them up year-round, which is a real triumph of laziness over aesthetics/ holiday spirit/ civic-mindedness/ all possible good qualities a human being can possess.

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@aelfred_D In the Gospels Jesus has to explain to the apostles that he is speaking in a metaphor, not literally, because they are dumb as stumps, and, boy, people have not gotten smarter in the intervening two millenia.

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@2bOrNot2t @LCD_Dansystem Welles Crowther would've tried to rescue you, too.

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@planefag Grigsby's War in the East :(

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@woke8yearold Yes? TVs are large, convenient, and cheap, and there's a ton of free content out there. I guess if you don't care about watching movies or sports a computer monitor can handle most things.

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@aelfred_D Hollow Earth theory being perhaps the least of his eccentricities.

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@aelfred_D Or a follower of US Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson, who was convinced that earth was hollow and advanced several bills in Congress to fund an exploratory expedition. He even concinced John Q. Adams on the project, though Congress remained cool to his proposals.

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@OVTweetmarck Goodtweetman is too strong a brand to abandon. Like K-Mart or Andrew Dice Clay.

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@WB_Baskerville TURKEY TROTS TO WATER WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS GTA VI THE WORLD WONDERS

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@KKriegeBlog This is me, but in response to my own lecture when we get to the bust of Mark Antony.

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@atlanticesque Not sure I agree with the specifics of your assessment. What technological innovation helped with the depression? Or the political chaos of 1968? Or the funk of the late 70s? (mass computerization, maybe?)

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@nic_munoz I haven't read all of those, but I found Chandler's Campaigns of Napoleon to be extremely illuminating on Bonaparte's mind and his influence on military thinking.

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@eigenrobot Like that movie the name of which I cannot remember with the Jewish demon haunting the Jewish girl because of Jewish history and they call in an Episcopalian priest to help with the exorcism.