You know what is even worse than nationalist white conservatives pining for the fascist cultural atmosphere of the 1950s USA? Nationalist white liberals pining for the fascist political economy of the 1950s USA. Reminder: The GM-FHA-RAND Corporation economy oly seems like a big sstep forward for economic opportunity or socioeconomic equality if the opportunities & equalities you are interested in are only those for white American citizens. #DestroyNostalgianomics #BurnCorporateLiberalism

“Hey Kyle I want to make a show that is nominally eeative entertainment but actually consists of just brutal conatant rote repetition of the most idiotic, trogolodytic sort of reactionary sort of War o’ the Sexes gender tropes I can come up with.” “I dunno Bob, that is kind of tough to pull off these days, people will say it is sexist.” “I know Kyle, that is the problem.” “Wait Bob, I’ve got the perfect solution. Let’s set it in a post-apocolyptic end of the world setting! That makes it a biting social commentary!” “Brilliant!”

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Dear LazyWeb: recommendations for a favorite trabslator for Euripides’ “The Trojan Women”*? (* verse translations only please, line breaks or forget it). This Penguin Classics public domain prose pile is not cutting it for me.