Worst year EVAR.

So I heard we might be starting blogging again. I kind of want to do a roundup of what’s happened since we stopped. But that seems like work. So I’ll note instead that today, I gave a lecture¹ on 1968: Tet, Johnson surrendering the Alamo declining to run, MLK’s murder, RFK’s murder, Chicago (including Ribicoff v. Daley, Buckley v. Vidal, and selected truncheons v. a whole bunch of protesters) … is it the worst year in American history?

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¹Lecturing is for professors who should be writing their books what writing letters was for Hemingway:² empty calories, an excursion that makes you feel as if you’ve done something really productive when kind of you haven’t.^3
2I should probably have a link for that quotation but I can’t find one. Anyway I’m not sure we’re really starting blogging again, so I don’t know if I feel committed to looking for stuff like that, you know?
³Hey, html footnotes again! I can’t remember if we thought those were funny, or not.

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