A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Why I'm Obnoxious on Facebook

Why I'm Obnoxious on Facebook

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John Mendelssohn
Mar 16, 2015
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It’s always seemed to me both more effective and a lot more fun to point out the idiocy of something you oppose from the inside — that is, as someone who purports to support it — than to hurl calumny at it from without. When I was a college boy, before my Rolling Stone review of the first Led Zeppelin album changed my life, and changed the course of pop…

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