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Happy Holidays from the Cradle of Misinformation (Guest Post by Peter Kuryla)

Editor’s Note: This is the last of four biweekly guest posts by Peter Kuryla. — Ben Alpers I had lofty ideas for this post.  I had planned on writing something about a scene from the film Citizen Kane by way of Ralph Ellison’s wonderful essay “The Little Man at Chehaw Station.” Hopefully I’ll do it some other time. Celebrating Christmas at my folks’ house, I even made a family event out of my ambition. We all sat down with microwaved popcorn and watched Orson Welles’ masterpiece the day after Christmas. It turned out ok, in that my parents then made Read more