Monday, August 22, 2005
Plus ça change ....
At least among American Commies.
Here's a 20-second segment from the 1952 radio show "I was a Communist for the FBI", overacted but largely factual stories drawn from the experiences of a double agent. In this episode, the Commies were planning to protest the House Unamerican Activities Committee. You should be able to recognize precursors of Comrade Gore, Comrade Sheehan, and Comrade Kerry in this short bit.
Sidenote: I think "Plus ça change" must be the single most popular title for blog entries. I googled the phrase in order to paste the cedilla character without having to dig out my old ASCII documentation. [This trick works well for all sorts of diacritic characters, because Google searches by the unmarked character but shows the marked.] Google gives 25 million responses to the phrase, and the majority seem to be blog entry titles! ¶ 8:06 AM
Here's a 20-second segment from the 1952 radio show "I was a Communist for the FBI", overacted but largely factual stories drawn from the experiences of a double agent. In this episode, the Commies were planning to protest the House Unamerican Activities Committee. You should be able to recognize precursors of Comrade Gore, Comrade Sheehan, and Comrade Kerry in this short bit.
Sidenote: I think "Plus ça change" must be the single most popular title for blog entries. I googled the phrase in order to paste the cedilla character without having to dig out my old ASCII documentation. [This trick works well for all sorts of diacritic characters, because Google searches by the unmarked character but shows the marked.] Google gives 25 million responses to the phrase, and the majority seem to be blog entry titles! ¶ 8:06 AM
