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That's why I don't live in a bubble, am not surprised on election nights, and don't spend two years pussy-aching about it afterward. reading more broadly will not hurt you, I promise!

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This is where Bacon Z. Good is putting his address.

J. A. Kenny

133 Polk ave.W. Mifflin 15122.

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I was referring to the way people who opposed investing in solar power referred to solar power for the past 50 years.

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Sorry, nope. My house has had solar since the mid 1970's. It it paid for the initial capital outlay after about 10 years and has continued to pay a dividend every year since.

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his tie!! He's an individualist. It's good to see an individualist now and then.

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Or solar power being really profitable.

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That was excellent. Thank you.You know, I had cancer a few years ago, and they told me they wanted to do a thorough kind of treatment because once they'd seen the DNA (OF MY CANCER), and then looked at it carefully, it looked so crazy-- they were more concerned than ever. So I said, 'what did it look like?' I was told it had lots of crazy arms sticking out that didn't belong there. So I had radiation I wouldn't have had and I'm ok-- it cost this nation a LOT of money, I'm sorry to say. But anyway, I was quite impressed by the whole strange deal-- how they decided according to its DNA and according to those arms-- arms on the cell nucleus? Arms on the DNA? Because I know DNA doesn't really have little letters on it. Don't know, I just obeyed like a zombie as if I didn't care, out of vanity, I guess.

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AKA, not a Republican.

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Sometimes voices, sometimes not.

Oh, yeah, and also the poetry of Robert Service. Some funny, some far too serious....

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That sounds frightfully familiar! Also, too - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, with some discussion of the differences in perception 'twixt the book and the musical.

My older daughter was very into Tomie dePaola, and by coincidence got to meet him several times, as a close friend is a neighbor of his. Great times!

My younger daughter is at the point now in age (almost eighteen) and temperament (yaaay punk!) where I think she will appreciate Diane DiMassa's Complete Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, a tome that really helped me become the man I am today. I just have to make sure she treats it well, as copies are at least $40 and rising.

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Incidentally, and just out of curiosity, did you also do the voices?

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Yeah, mine were raised on Seuss, Milne, Awdry (Thomas) and Beatrix Potter (among others). They got Gorey as they got older, of course, among other cartoon collections (different tastes). I read them the ones I liked as a child, while my wife read them the ones she enjoyed as an adult (Greek myths, etc.), but it worked out fine. So far.

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Practical gene therapy is like practical fusion power: We are just 10 years away from achieving it; just like how have been 10 years away from achieving it for the last 40 years.

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I'd go for the moonshot: A republican that thinks of someone else.

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Sneaky and conniving. The calm before the storm.

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"'Both,' and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, 'But don't bother about the bread, please.'"

I always made a practice of getting my daughters such fun things as Edward Gorey books for Christmas...

My fare was more classic - Milne, etc., and do look up The Jeremy Mouse Book.

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