Mondale … bless his heart. The election Berkeley is satirizing (from an oblique angle lol) was one of history’s truly unreal landslide presidential elections: Reagan won 59% of the popular vote, compared to Mondale’s 40%, but won 525 of the available 538 electoral votes (most in history) — Mondale won only his home state, Minnesota, and the District of Columbia.
Today is October 15, 2020. Election day is rapidly approaching. Future youse will know what happened over the next month or three. Good luck, fellow travellers.
Yeah, by ‘84 they were fewer and farther between. As in nearly impossible to find unless you were in a big city. I wonder if there ever came a time in America where the “Disco” ceased to exist, i.e., they’d all begun using the term “club” or whatnot? Eh, I doubt it – it’s a big place, ’merica.
Indeed, and the OP was right, as far as it goes. The Columbia disaster was due to heat-resistant tiles.