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BAD HISTORY: THE GEORGE WASHINGTON COLLECTION
In the context of my recent complaints about Mount Vernon, below is a round-up—a collection, if you will—with paywalls temporarily removed, of stuff…
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Mount Vernon Jumps on the Phoniest of Militaristic Bandwagons
Public history in meltdown ...
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It's Getting Serious: ChatGPT Is Now Forced to Consider a Question for the Ages
And, Yet Again, It Backs Down!
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"Happy Birthday, Mister President..."
The US Army celebrates its birth every June 14 because it officially locates its origins in the creation of the Continental Army, which occurred on that…
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Grok Takes Up Literary Criticism
We're talking Hamlet--and what LLM can and can't do.
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May 2025

Are we all Zionists?
George Lewis [sic] told the Englishman, the Italian, and the Jew / You can’t open up your mind, boys, to every conceivable point of view.
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Food Stamps and Food Restrictions
A Modest Proposal
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Asking Grok about Musk's lies can reveal a lot--about Grok.
For my recent post on how Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias got up in front of an audience in Wisconsin and presented a scary bar graph about non-citizens…
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April 2025

Notes: Why Do I Keep Bringing All This Stuff Up?
We know the U.S. has some bad history. What are we supposed to do with it now?
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What Is the Alien Enemies Act?
Trump is relying on a 1798 law with a bad history.
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Banning Books at the Naval Academy
Where wrong meets stupid.
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"The Masque of Anarchy"
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819, following the Peterloo Massacre; published (posthumously) 1832.
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