Canisius High. This website talks about a plan to build an extension of the high school over the site, and also has a neat image that shifts from an old drawing of the street to a Google Earth image showing the parking lot.

That's always been a mystery to me, how someone with the utter lack of charisma that Richard Nixon displayed could ever get elected. I guess there were a lot of angry white people in 1968.

The Pierce/Buchanan duo that rode us into the Civil War was pretty shitty. And yes, Johnson was just epically bad.

Ben Affleck took care of that.

If we're building as our counterfactual the possibility that JFK was caught having an affair, when through not quite three years nobody ever caught him having an affair, it doesn't seem very likely.

My favorite illustration of the gap between Roosevelt and McKinley is that the house in Buffalo where Roosevelt was sworn in is a National Historic Site, while the house where McKinley died was demolished and is now a high school parking lot.

Well, other than the Civil Service Act, Arthur was in fact a complete non-entity. One of a very few Presidents to seek renomination by his party only to be denied, although since he croaked two years later it was for the best.

The notion of buying the film rights to a non-fiction work will never not be weird. I guess it's cool for Doris Kearns Goodwin to get a pot of money, but history is not a novel and it's just bizarre that anyone imagines they have to pay Goodwin or anyone else to dramatize the real-life rivalry between Roosevelt and…

Dumb

You have to assume a show is playing fair with you. Watson said she had sex with Mycroft, so she did.

As a teenager I was quite taken with Olivia in "The Wonder Years". Some serious hotness from the D'Abo sisters.

They do that all the time.

Lisa Kudrow is on this show?

That is a welcome change—the only difference between 9/11 truthers, birthers, and Kennedy conspiracy theorists is that the Kennedy people are more popular. Also, the Kennedy crackpots seem to be disproportionately liberal folks who think JFK would have made everything better (looking at you, David Talbot).

Ford's Theater refused to stock that crappy Lincoln book.

Bobby didn't have the delegates in'68. Humphrey was going to win the nomination anyway.

He would have crushed Goldwater, maybe not by as much as LBJ did, but he would have won by plenty.

Kim Cattrall would have been a lot more interesting.

I remember reading that Murray basically hated being in "Charlie's Angels" and he and Lucy Liu especially hated each other for some reason, which is why he got replaced with Bernie Mac in the shitty sequel.

The only directing credit of his career.