The past is a foreign country I: Revenge of the Nerds

[Have I mentioned I have a book available for pre-order? Or (if you hate pre-ordering things) that I also have a relatively new book available for regular order?]

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the past few years it is that human beings have no long-term memory. We are unable to conceive of what the world was like even in the recent past. In 2006, when Chip Taylor wanted to characterize the two political parties, it was the Democrats he decided to call “conspiracy flingers” (hear it here)...