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You definitely know what a Charlie Card is, and you might even know a little about the folk song, "M.T.A.," that inspired the cards' name. But do you know all about the charged political environment surrounding the tune? Dissent magazine has a detailed article relating the history of everyman Charlie of the "M.T.A." song to Cold War politics in Boston. It's full of hard facts and fascinating trivia--did you know Charlie's original name was Angus? The beefy moniker was judged too "chauvinistic" and insufficiently representative of the generic American worker, so the name was changed to good ol' Chuck.