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TTLA joins the rest of the KCET.org blog crew in welcoming to the site Brian Doherty and his City of Angles political journal.

TTLA

in particular looks forward to picking this public intellectual's brain for tales about tanks. Doherty, as his bio here notes, works for Reason and has had a book published by the Cato Institute.

Here's a recent Doherty Reason Online piece about, in part, Ayn Rand and the film and graphic novel versions of Watchmen.

(And here's one Ayn Rand-related TTLA post.)

Read City of Angles here.

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