Dude, who even knows.

9th January 2022

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Like to contextualize Nick Kristof’s Oregon governor thing you have to know about Tom McCall, the legendary 1967-75 governor who’s considered the founder of modern Oregon, like you’ll hear he was a newspaperman but it was like if Mississippi or maybe California had elected Mark Twain, or somewhere had elected Steve Sailer in 2002

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25th August 2018

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the kids haven’t even heard of Royko

Mike Royko, the greatest Mark Twain since H.L. Mencken

(acknowledgements to Tom McCall, actually elected governor of Oregon)

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