Is it necessary to save dreck? Yes. Bad art says as much about an age as the fine-quality works that supposedly define the era. It can say more, too. If all you knew about the post-war period were movie musicals and abstract art, you'd have an incomplete picture. Then again, if all you knew about the 70s was gore, shock, disgust and cheap production values, you could probably guess the rest. Anyway, Yale has a new collection. Atlantic says they now have . . .

Not sure how something that began in the 70s emerged in the Reagan era. More:

The movies are the inheritors of the grindhouse tradition, which predated VHS. Same audience: jaded pervs. Just because the movies are worthy of preservation doesn't mean they're any good. But there will always be those who find what they want to find in such things:

Does it now.

BREAKING NEWS From the collection of old Tribunes we've been sifting through, a front page ad. Front page. Above the fold!

Below was an ad, just as big, for HOT CAKES.

And now, back to watching the markets.