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I showed the image to my mom (who remembers when Watergate was in the news) and she agrees it’s Ehrlichman. Thank you for your help!

This image is from a 1970s animation (the short film for Cheech and Chong’s “Basketball Jones” in case anyone’s curious, although if you look it up, I’ll warn you that it does contain some stereotypical caricatures that didn’t age very well).

Anyway, in this specific image, the guy in the middle is obviously Richard Nixon, but it’s not obvious to me who the other two guys are (I think the guy on the right is Melvin Laird, based on photos I’ve seen). Any ideas?

EDIT: Current theory is that it’s Nixon’s Attorney General, John Mitchell.

I don’t know what to do with this information, but I found out today that Sam Harris’s (as in, the atheist guy who hates Muslims) mother is the creator of The Golden Girls.

So, I’d like to do some writing, and I’m aware that Substack has been overly accommodating to literal nazis, so I probably shouldn’t support Substack. But where WOULD be a good place to publish longer essays?

I have a really dumb question, one which I assume has been answered somewhere before, so feel free to either link me to that answer or copy and paste it here.

Whenever the subject of Substack comes up – like when someone I follows links to their Substack page – someone always mentions that “Substack supports Nazis”. I don’t usually read things on Substack and I haven’t written anything on it, so it never became a dilemma for me, but what are people referring to when they say this? Do they actively support Nazis financially, while suppressing non-Nazis? Or is it that they allow Nazis to use their site instead of actively removing them? Do their policies, or the enforcement of their policies, disproportionately favour fascists?

As long as I’m asking, what are people using as an alternative to Substack?

I love how this just blatantly accepts the premise that cops are racist.

Everyone’s suggesting books to get, which is fine, but I had something else in mind:

I have a friend who teaches library science and has worked in libraries. One of the libraries she worked in gets donations of books from people. Sometimes donated books are… not great, but for whatever reason they have to catalogue the book and put it on the shelf. One of the books that came in was a terrible abstinence-only sex-ed book, which she really didn’t want the students to find in the sexual health section of the library. So, she looked through the book and found one page with a Bible verse. Since the page had a Bible verse, she could justify putting the book in the “Religion” section – a section that students were far less likely to look at than the sexual health section. I’m not sure how much power you have over how books are catalogued in your library, but if you have any choice in the matter, I guess that’s the sort of strategy you could consider – trying to make sure the good books are easier to find than the bad ones.

It seems like the trend went from “dumb Adam Sandler-type comedies” to “Judd Apatow-type awkward comedies”.

Contrary to what the left-wing media would have you believe, the child in the basement is no angel.

We just need to go back to a simpler time, when everybody was polite to each other and nobody discussed the child in the basement.