Show me the Smedley!
–Gareth
First of all, let me enjoy his name. Smedley Darlington Butler. That’s a whole lotta moxie on his mother’s part.
Secondly, how did she know he would grow up to look so much like a Smedley?
That is a Smedley mug, complete with Smedley something-smells-awry face.
Now, then.
There is a Smedley Butler Society, and their website is the angriest color yellow I have ever seen. Didn’t think a color could be angry? Go look. I’ll wait.
Told you.
Shake it off.
the Business Plot conspiracy (or alleged conspiracy) on Wikipedia
House Un-American Activities Committee
American Liberty League: organized to oppose FDR’s New Deal
War is a Racket
And, you know, while FDR was juggling this (alleged) mess, and the New Deal, what else he was juggling? A lot of bare Navy asses, that’s what.
the Bushes: Prescott Bush and his complicated economic intertwinings with the Nazis (and the Trading with the Enemy Act)
the Singer sewing machine fortune, aka, I was Daddy’s favorite, no I was: The Clarks of Cooperstown
Bands from this episode:
- Gin Tears (tend towards maudlin covers–the more moody songs of Johnny Cash
‘s catalog, Patsy Cline
, that sort of thing)
- Bellicose Stare
- Schlub Arm
- King Meatball
- Dickstein
Cultural references from this episode:
- Tienanmen Square
- Saturday Night Fever
(if Tony wants to go up on the bridge, you say no–this is a surprisingly depressing movie, moral of the story being there are some boyfriends you just don’t want) - The Phantom of the Opera
here, inside your mind
