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Skimmed Season 4. Liked it. Definitively going to be one of those seasons that rewards repeated viewing.

The audience for Broadway shows was also different in 1953. Yes, there was the tourist trade but plays and musicals were something that ordinary folk in the tri-state area went to for entertainment. (It was a whole other time. Only 45 percent of American households - according to the internet -...

Spy was a magazine back in the 1990s that took a sharp but humorous look at the worlds of politics, entertainment, publishing, etc. Like Private Eye in tone but not especially in content. In their last issue, they ran an article on the early days of George, the political magazine he co-founded...

It's theoretically possible but the Revolution was such a close run thing in our timeline. It was the foreign powers - especially the French - who supplied the arms for the Americans. Without them, the Continentals wouldn't have lasted long term. The only way I could see it is if 1775 goes even...

That's a good question. I've watched a couple of interviews with him where his eyes absolutely glazed over when he was forced to talk about his father. So, that would've been a challenge. There's also the fact that he allegedly wasn't the sharpest stick in the box, That he failed the New York...

I don't know. Sometimes there's something tangible about an intangible. As a decade, the Sixties started late. The death of JFK is probably a good point for when the Fifties ended but without the Beatles to usher in the new decade, to provide the mood music, it would've been a little...

I do too, I just re-watched it and in some universe somewhere, it's constantly cited as one of the best scenes ever in American cinema. Bach put it best in his book. It had just too much of everything. Too many gorgeous shots. Too many gorgeously shot scenes that went on for way too long. And -...

I'm a practising Catholic. One of the churches I regularly go to (I switch around because of my work schedule,) has one Mass a week using the 1962 Missal. Basically, it's a Mass all in Latin, with the priest facing the altar most of the time with his back to the congregation. It's not accessible...

I'm a practising Catholic. I'm also moronic. What would have happened? (...and two other things.)

Actually, in the OT, the only American actually killed in the burning of DC was.... John Lewis, a grand-nephew of George Washington. Previously, he'd been impressed into the British navy FOR years, along with his brother. Tormented by his shipmates because of his connection, he finally gained...

Ok, I'll probably get banned for once again revisiting The Greatest Victory in American History but.... I've been re-reading about the fabled battle of Washington in August 1814 and struck by what a close run thing it was. Yes, yes. I know the British were out-numbered by the Americans, that...

The unending series of tell-alls by former White House staffers probably never would've happened in the 70s. And his brother Bobby... remember him?... could've done something more than represent insurance companies in New York.

Liked it. Some random thoughts....

In one respect.

Yeah, I thought this would be a cliche. Nicaragua - gotta help those freedom-loving Contras. Or El Salvador. I remember reading at one point that the rebels controlled something like a third of the country, which isn't very big to begin with. Or Reagan decides to soldier on in Lebanon after the...

There;s also the possibility that Nazi America goes to war with a Nazi Germany. Having to give up their American identity completely might be the one step the colonial apparatus aren't prepared to take.

So, as we all learned in school, it took the death of Thomas Jefferson to finally win the American Revolution in 1781. Surprised by British raiders at his estate in Virginia on a hot June day, what happened next has been endlessly debated since then. Was his death accidental? A deliberate...

The American Revolution was such a financial sinkhole for England that I can't imagine the war going all out from 1775 to 1789. Maybe a decisive defeat early on, like Washington getting trapped and obliterated in Brooklyn. Most organized resistance in the colonies collapses the following year...

I'll give it a try.... Eisenhower gets struck by lightning while out on the golf course early on in his first administration. Nixon takes over and so none of the modest civil rights advances take place. Come the 1960s, you have even more call for the draft - maybe dealing with an insurgency...

For argument's sake, let's say we get an American generation that looks like the Mods. That they're just as anti-war and into free love [if you have the invention of the Pill, nothing's going to stop that] but they dress much more conservatively. And for further argument's sake, we're taking...