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Thursday, February 24, 2011

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School Tech Connect: Lap Dog/Lap Dance

Lap Dog/Lap Dance

I used to travel a lot before I became a hermit. In my time in Germany, I never once talked to anyone who thought that Ronald Reagan had anything to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The locals seem to remember it having a lot more to do with a generation of dissidents and activists, although they're familiar with the American right's idea that it was Reagan's doing. It's a religious tenet here; it's a joke there.

Anyway, people like to tell themselves stories, and Scott Walker's story is that the firing of the air traffic controllers ended the Cold War. Scott Walker thinks he's Ronald Reagan here; he's going to take on the Soviets