For a trip down memory lane to the 1970s
The Lambda Fifth Columns: Part 1 (of 4), Fall 1971
This is the first part of a new series of Fifth Columns featuring my columns from 1971 to 1973 in the Laurentian University student newspaper Lambda, that inspired me to write the Fifth Column many years later. They will be presented here in four parts.
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https://the5thc.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-lambda-fifth-columns-part-1-of-4.html
Really liked #DanAbrams here. Didn't always agree but very smart and fair. #TheFifthColumn
Love this term for the #MAGA movement. #Trump does "fan service". It's like the next level of "audience capture" where a pundit/journalist changes their opinions/reporting to please the bias of their content consumers. Instead, the newsmaker acts in the world to rewrite reality. He looks at comments online and then does and says whatever will get the best response from his most devoted supporters. Not what best serves his vision or is actually best for the nation. #uspol
The boys at #TheFifthColumn are nailing it. There is waste to cut but #DOGE is taking an approach that is often illegal, misleading and will make doing this necessary work harder in the future. When you look at the success of the Clinton era #REGO process, I'm stuck wondering why they are choosing this path. Either they are dumb / unware of what was accomplished back then, or pursuing other priorities. Making government and society dysfunctional perhaps. IDK. #uspol
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition. www.wethefifth.com
#TheFifthColumn is complaining about what happened to #twitter and blaming the people who left for alternative services like #mastodon #threads and #bluesky. Somehow these guys also still claim to be libertarian.
#ElonMusk bought and changed the business. People decided the new service wasn't worth the price they were paying anymore. That's how it's supposed to work.
Pathetic but at least they are kinda admitting that #X isn't working for them anymore. Slow progress. #SocialWeb
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