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As of today, October 27, 2024, we are now as far from Ronald Reagan's presidency as his was from FDR's

I don't know what was going on with "burrito taxi" discourse over in the socialist-o-sphere over the past 4 years, but I'm just going to note that pizza delivery was common enough in the past that advertising slogans promising a pizza would be delivered in "30 minutes or less" date back to... *squints* the 1970s. There was already a lawsuit about it in 1993.

#politics #amhist

The problem with obsessively inhaling the Life of LBJ books (again) is like….how am I supposed to fanblog about this? There are no gifsets for when you can’t stop thinking about the asshole Majority Leader of the Senate in 1954 masterfully manipulating the southern coalition into increasingly progressive politics, generating so much power in the Democratic Party that even a Catholic Kennedy could be elected president. There are no gifsets dedicated to how geological and environmental factors shaped Texas politics during the dust bowl. I’m losing my mind.

#I literally went to the LBJ library museum and Lady Bird center yesterday in my desperation for content #less a blorbo and more a bug I’m obsessed with examining with a microscope #the life of LBJ #master of the senate #Robert Caro #LBJ #amhist #I do fear there are JFK RP blogs and fanfiction but I dread to look

Since 1977, U.S. states have passed laws steadily raising the age for which a child must ride in a car safety seat. These laws significantly raise the cost of h

“Since 1977, U.S. states have passed laws steadily raising the age for which a child must ride in a car safety seat. These laws significantly raise the cost of having a third child, as many regular-sized cars cannot fit three child seats in the back. Using census data and state-year variation in laws, we estimate that when women have two children of ages requiring mandated car seats, they have a lower annual probability of giving birth by 0.73 percentage points. Consistent with a causal channel, this effect is limited to third child births, is concentrated in households with access to a car, and is larger when a male is present (when both front seats are likely to be occupied). We estimate that these laws prevented only 57 car crash fatalities of children nationwide in 2017. Simultaneously, they led to a permanent reduction of approximately 8,000 births in the same year, and 145,000 fewer births since 1980, with 90% of this decline being since 2000.”

#amhist #adults-make-children society

Tell me a story about a midcentury small town American boy coming-of-age.

A good one would be a lot more evocative of a "weird and ironic and melancholy" American experience than this, but I'm having a hard time coming up with one that doesn't sound entirely generic and Protestant.

Someone's reading a bedtime book and straining to hear the notes through the giggles, and someone else is breaking out in hives and coughing and runs to the bathroom. A man, too feverish even for fever, stands up abruptly and goes downstairs to the bar for whiskey. He orders another beer but seems to have lost all feeling in his right arm and has to lean on another customer for support. He proceeds to spin in circles on the table, moaning pitifully, and someone brings him a steaming cup of coffee, which he drinks in one gulp.

#vladimir nabokov #one struck west #amhist