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The thing about the shoes, good-bye George

Look, I’ve always known this, so don’t feel bad– it ain’t no declaration of outsiderness– but I am a weird guy. Always have been, always will be. My thinking diverges, and though I pass the Captain Beefheart test, the mystery … Continue reading

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the wheel of fortune

Not that it needs another blog post, but Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize has shocked my lefty brain. It was hard, so hard, to have lived through the chaos of the 2000 election and its aftermath. There was … Continue reading

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Giving Paddy his wacks

George W. Bush’s Andover old boy attitude with an Irish interviewer, and Todd C. Murray‘s comment upon it, reminded me of my second favorite piece of young Bush lore: the branding. When I first heard that Bush had defended, and … Continue reading

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