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"It's the fuckin' scarecrow again" is going to stay with me.

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You thought Omaha was a state? Everyone knows it's a beach.

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I certainly hope that was deliberate and not a typo, because Altman Brothers is the coolest thing I've read today. I saw it as a cross between Allman and Altamont.

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."--Napoleon

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Reagan had better handlers. When asked about the Russians invading Afghanistan, he said he was ready to bomb Pakistan. Fortunately, it didn't happen.

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Do you think there's ever the tiniest shred of awareness that by so loudly trumpeting their own life choices as the 'norm', they are themselves being disrespectful towards the rest of us - who, unless i miss my guess, outnumber them something like two to one? I realize most of them wouldn't care a bit or find it hilarious if they thought of it at all. But I try to think well of them, so I have to assume some of them must possess an irony gland that isn't totally withered away.

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I think we got the point the first three times you posted this.

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Oh, fuck, it wasn't even a typo, although thank you for offering that option. Apparently I fail at credulous boomer rube music. As much as I know about the Allman Brothers, I know from the movie Romancing the Stone. Seriously.

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Fermented platypus piss?

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The spork is just a renamed runcible spoon. Been around for at least a century.

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Oh boo hoo, I don't want to hear another fake outrage from the right about feelings.

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If any white person had gotten it once over the last 400 years , I wouldn't have had to post it at all.

Jonathan might not even have had to write it.

Think about it that way.

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No, absolutely they don't even consider that. They just make the assumption that they are the default option and anyone who isn't them is suspect.

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As we've just seen, Pompeo is a sexist, rage-filled asshole, so that explains why he likes Trump.

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Related: I'm glad Robyn mentioned Jeremiah Wright, but Wilson also owes Max Cleland one hell of an apology.

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Anybody who combines William Howard Taft with a Cat for both a name and Avatar and says stuff I agree with gets my support and "following."

But what's the interest in William Howard Taft? His understated work of continuing Theodore Roosevelt's "trust-busting" programs as President? His genial demeanor? His reform of the Supreme Court so that it could take cases based on merit, not have to hear everything sent to them?

His birthplace in Cincinnati is a National Historic Site, complete with guided tours, exhibits, and gift shop that sells "William Howard Taft Birthplace" t-shirts. The exhibits include his family's long history of politics and government service, and they tap-dance around Robert Taft being so far to the right he made Francisco Franco look like a Communist.

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