November 2012
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What in the living heck did Republican elder Haley Barbour mean when, discussing his party's recent electoral disasters, he announced that "we’ve got to give our political organization a very serious proctology exam. We need to look everywhere”? I've got to guess that he "misspoke." Surely he didn't mean to claim that GOP office-holders have…
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In Which 3-year-old Lola Describes the Structure and Functioning of the Contemporary American Family
"Mommies are parents; daddies are kids."
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At Ozo's, a woman jumps the queue. A man standing on the line taps her on the shoulder. "Excuse me, but you've jumped the line." Woman: "You ought to keep your hands to yourself." Man: "Wow, you crash the line, and you have the grievance. So 'entitled.' You must be a Romney supporter." Woman (outraged):…
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Many years ago, when I was young and invulnerable, it was most amusing that Mr. Barkis, the "willin'" carrier in David Copperfield, offered up his shillings with such agony. Barkis is bedridden with a cripplingly painful illness. He has a locked box of coins, and although he has become "near," he has the generous impulse…
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The Republicans now draw most of their strength from the former "slave states." Here's the evidence and the map: In 2012, Republicans won only 55 electoral votes from the free states. Obama carried 332. I don't think it's coincidence or merely an association. I think it's a cause. In order to support slavery, a person…