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ICYMI: I joined @heymiller’s Great Books podcast to discuss Walter Scott’s #Ivanhoe—its characters, ideas, influence (spoiler alert: yooge!), and continued relevance. @NRPodcasts
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I mean, there’s a reason a bunch of towns across America are called Ivanhoe, and why there’s a statue of Scott (alongside Shakespeare and Robert Burns) in Central Park.
Scott’s novels were so popular in the US during the 19th century, esp the South, that Mark Twain blamed him for helping start the Civil War. That’s why the wrecked steamboat in Huck Finn is called the Walter Scott.
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ICYMI: I wrote about Muriel Spark's career and "critical but conforming" Catholicism for @firstthingsmag.
firstthings.com/article/2019/0…
Spark was hilarious.
Spark often returned to two religious preoccupations: the mysterious workings of grace and the dangers of moral superiority (something approaching antinomianism).
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Lots of people out to see the ‘Zards take on the Lakers. They’ll be so upset when they found out that Dwight Howard is stil injured!
There are 10 Lakers/Heat/Cavs jerseys for every one Wizards.
Former Badger Sam Dekker is with the ‘Zards now? I had no idea.
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Home Alone is SO unrealistic: Buzz’s bedroom circa 1990/91 has an Isaiah Thomas poster *and* a Chicago Bulls sticker? Please. No self-respecting fan of either team would have done that. (The movie was set outside of Chicago, so that should have been an MJ poster).
To those of you saying, “Isaiah was from Chicago!” Yes, but Buzz is about 13 or 14. This is what he’d know about Isaiah and Chicago:
Join me next week, when I discuss what Damone’s bedroom posters say about him in Fast Times at Ridgemont High!
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ALRIGHT Y'ALL, OPERATION: BEST BOOKS OF 2018 THREAD IS LIVE!

Here's how this'll work: Each book I mention will have a blurb, a cover image, buy links from @justonemorepage wherever possible, and a @librofm link if I particularly enjoyed the audiobook.

HERE WE GO BUCKLE UP KIDS
WICKED AND THE WALLFLOWER by @sarahmaclean: My favorite book of the year, and my fave of Sarah's books. Thrilling, passionate, sexy as hell, incredibly moving, and a heroine that is EVERYTHING to me. Do yourself a favor and pick this up immediately.

📕: tinyurl.com/y7s37exx
THE POET X by @AcevedoWrites: This won the NBA for a reason, and it's the same reason I cried on the Metro listening to this audiobook at 9:30 on a Wednesday. Even months later this book gives me chills. Listen to it now.

📕: tinyurl.com/y7ve6f5d
🎧: tinyurl.com/y952jnkj
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Here's a thread about the books I read this year!

#reading #books #libraries #readingrainbow
1. "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff. Yes, I hate-read this book in a matter of days. Problematically, Bannon comes across as an articulate, insightful source and not an arch nationalist parasite. Will Wolff's depiction be hagiography in the future?
2. "The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control" and "The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America" by Theodore Allen. Who knew how important Bacon's Rebellion (1676) was to the history of racism?
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Maria Butina just got arrested for being a #TrumpPutin spy and infiltrating the NRA.

Let me tell you more about her from my #GrandOldPutinParty report.

#TreasonSummit thesternfacts.com/a-gop-kremlin-…
Three weeks ago @patrickLSimpson and I released the #GrandOldPutinParty series, a story in 5 parts, detailing how Republicans got in bed with Vladimir Putin's Russia.

Torshin is just one part. His deputy just went down for maintaining the ruse.

thesternfacts.com/republicans-he…
Maria Butina was just like any other Siberian girl until she joined Putin's United Russia party and ran for a party seat.

That's when she began "Operation Implementation" as I reported last month.
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1/
 Reuters "Trump approval direction by states". Look at all the red arrows showing his falling approval in so many states
2/
 "80%+ of every single demographic says the economy will be extremely or very important to their midterm vote in November via new @CNN poll:"
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@KurtSchlichter 👇a
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#ICYMI: Iranian forces fired 20 rockets at Israeli army outposts on the Golan Heights last night. In response, Israeli military set out on an extensive retaliatory attack against Iranian targets, the largest Israeli attack in Syria since 1974
No casualties reported on the Israeli side. Several targets connected to the #IRGC & Hezbollah attacked by Israel. Syrian media claims dozens of Israeli missiles were intercepted. There are reports of casualties in Syria.
More bomb shelters opened in northern Israel
The rocket barrage from Syria was directed at Israeli army outposts on the Golan Heights, like the intelligence assessment that the Iranian response will be limited so it won't lead to war. It is the 1st time Israel blames Iran directly for an attack on its territory
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1. There's a story to be told about how figures on the American populist left are being captured by Putin and weaponized in service of his effort to make American political culture more like contemporary Russia's.
2. Listen to minutes 22 to 26 of this podcast interview with Ed Schultz, a pro-Bernie populist who I used to listen to on Air America. nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-j…
3. After protesting to the interviewer about how free he is to say whatever he wants on RT, he then waffles and hems and haws in response to a simple question: Is Putin's human rights record atrocious, like you used to say it was when you weren't with RT?
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