Damn, Men in Black holds up.

Over a century. Prohibition built its coalition on animus against Jews, Catholics, and Germans at a time when those groups were making the country majority-urban.

People complained less before the internet, because they didn't have an outlet to do so and thus never felt obliged or entitled to do so.

TV was a thing back then, and the Nazis used it to its fullest extent at the time, which was limited, but you're basically right about how they approached it.

There's a difference between "Jews" and "the Jews." It plays into presently resurgent attitudes about Jews as global parasites enslaving the world through the fictions of democracy, commerce, and education.

I just discovered that there are apparently Talking Heads truthers convinced that the music industry is controlled by a global cabal of Jews and Freemasons and that David Byrne revealed this in code through his lyrics, but was quashed by the other members of the band who were talentless Jews without internet access.

What is weird? The new head of MSNBC tanking high ratings to make the network less left-leaning. That's politics, not business.

Perhaps it's overall foolish to generalize based on date of birth.

Yes.

It occurs to me that metrics like television ratings are dependent on a strong middle class. If the majority of people are unable to generate an economically sustainable level of consumption, this shit becomes meaningless!

I'm not holding my breath until a more reputable publication runs this story.

They're anti-masturbation.

There's an increasing case to be made for dementia here.

"So, Katrina Vandenheuvel and Bob Scheer, please tell us how Russia isn't dangerous and the military-industrial complex is trying to scuttle peace and harmony with Putin! Certainly this has nothing to do with hanging around way too many implacable Depression-era Stalinists from your parents' generation!"

My friends and I have already lost half our parents to Bill Maher.

An audience is an audience. Back before the proliferation of cable, it was totally sensible for broadcast networks to have as wide a range of programming as possible, to appeal to the most people possible.

However much California State University officially denies it, tuition there used to be free, and UCs only charged token fees. But in the '70s, the UCs were made "independent" from government oversight, allegedly to stop the curriculum from being politicized; we don't know the real reason but the UC is now under a…

That sounds an awful lot like draconian regulation! (which polls show a large majority of Americans are okay with, but I digress)

I miss the days when we stereotyped Baby Boomers as overidealistic old lefty hippies whose old-fashioned bleeding hearts had no place in modern civilization.

San Francisco is now in a crazy 1945-level labor shortage because nobody who needs an entry-level service job can afford to live (legally) within commuting distance, because the median rent for a 1bd apartment is $4200/month, and half of the residences in SF aren't even used as permanent residences! I don't understand…