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• Rick Bayan wrote a new blog post: Got Slaves, General Washington?   2 weeks, 2 days ago
  

  On the corner of Sixth and Market Streets here in Philadelphia, less than a home run’s distance from Independence Hall, archaeologists a few summers ago dug through two centuries’ worth of dirt and rubble to uncover the ancient foundations of the President’s House. On this very spot, between 1790 and 1797, George Washington lived, slept, struggled with his [...]

• Rick Bayan wrote a new blog post: The Winter of Everyone’s Discontent   3 weeks, 2 days ago
  

  Ten days have passed since my last post, and I wanted to reassure my readers that I haven’t been struck down by swine flu or a runaway Mack truck. I’m alive and well. You haven’t heard from me for one plain reason: nothing is happening.
  Sure, the Winter Olympics are under way in Vancouver and its environs. A [...]

• Rick Bayan wrote a new blog post: Welcome to the Mad Tea Party   1 month ago
  

  H. L. Mencken, that magnificent journalistic scourge of Holy Rollers, Rotarians, mountebanks and democracy, would have relished the spectacle. He would have taken a front-row seat and churned out reams of trenchant, rollicking, suitably irreverent copy. I like to think his merry ghost is hovering over the proceedings even now.
  Deep in the heart of the [...]

• Rick Bayan wrote a new blog post: Obama Gets His Mojo Back   1 month, 1 week ago
  

  By my rough estimate, 114,278 bloggers have already commented on President Obama’s State of the Union Address. (That’s the SOTU by the POTUS, to use the acronyms favored by ostentatiously au courant bloggers.) So what can The New Moderate add to the day-old conversation?
  We can observe that our bruised and battered yearling president finally recovered [...]

• Rick Bayan commented on the blog post Hell in Haiti: a Post-Mortem   1 month, 2 weeks ago
  

  Thanks, White Rabbit person! Your site looks like a lot of fun — I’ve bookmarked it myself.

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