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" It was a great loss to American political humor when the John Birch Society fell out of favor with the lunatic Right and, most notably, with its respectable front men. (My dear fellows, that sort of thing simply is not done.) Once, I interviewed a gentleman named Robert Stoddard, a Worcester, Ma. industrialist who was one of the people invited put to Indiana by Robert Welch to the meeting at which the JBS was founded. Stoddard was rather old at this point and, because his company made engines for B-52 bombers, he had a model of a B-52 on his desk. At odd intervals, he would pick it up and wave it around, making small whooshing noises as he did so. It was a great interview. Anyway, the JBS flared briefly back to life recently because of Charles and David Koch, the sons of a Society elder and Sugar Daddies to just about all the right-wing think-tanks, AstroTurf front groups, misfit governors, and pundit marionettes in the country. Now, it appears that the Koch brothers also specialized in international bribery, lying about industrial homicides, and dealing with Iran. You have to love the e-mail from the Koch flack that blames &amp;quot;regulatory complexity&amp;quot; for the company&amp;#039;s lawlessness. (If only there weren&amp;#039;t so many laws, we wouldn&amp;#039;t break so many of them!) I&amp;#039;m sure The Market will work its will upon Koch Industries and the brothers will be selling apples off a steam-grate in Denver by this time next month. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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