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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This being a family newspaper, much of it I can't report. But something curious caught my eye: "LiberAls Suck." Next to that, perhaps significantly, was a weatherbeaten clump of spearmint Bubble Yum which looked remarkably like a small chlorophyll turd...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Life on the Bench | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

...wondered why this person--whom I suspected to be "Danny 84," because that name was scrawled in the same black Marks-A-Lot script to my right--feels that "LiberAls Suck." While a lot of people, particularly those who voted ... when was that? November? ... might see this as true, Danny 84s mode of argumentation intrigued...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Life on the Bench | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

Knowing the nature of many opponents of the libertarian-militarist tradition (that's a more accurate label. I think, than "conservative.") I could imagine a comment like "Conservatives Suck" or "RcaGan is a Dick...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Life on the Bench | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

...minority. And therefore, to be effective, libertarian militarists must present a cogent., coherent, obviously persuasive dogma. Liberals in Massachusetts can trust in a wave of popular sentiment among the Commonwealth's Volvo-drivers and Burger King employees to absolve them of forensic shortcomings. Hence the viability of "ConserviTives Suck" as political propaganda...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Life on the Bench | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

...installed in the U.S.S.R.'s diplomatic properties in the U.S. and elsewhere. The Kremlin's listening post in Cuba, for example, can pick up virtually all traffic from U.S. domestic communication satellites. Says an NSA official: "They just sit down there with their huge vacuum cleaner and suck everything up." In recent years the Soviets have developed computers that can cull such intelligence with much more sophistication than earlier models, and not just in search of defense secrets. "A computer can put together those bits and pieces," says an NSA official. "And even if the vast majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Safe to Use the Phone? | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

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