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The Spirit of 2006

John Fetterman and the lost era of the feisty, not-that-ideological Dem

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Sep 13, 2023
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Everyone is fated to grow up and become a nostalgia-addled middle-aged person, as I was recently reminded when listening to the “2006 Movie Draft” episode of my favorite podcast, The Big Picture.

You see, 2006 happens to have been the year when I was at my very peak consumption of cultural products. No wife, no girlfriend, stagnating a little bit profes…

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