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"I'll take 'Great Bar Sing-Along Songs' for $1,000, Alex."

How about "You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille?"

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They'd "lost their way" back then, remember?

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i would say ee cummings or something but mostly just lazy.

though now i do remember me, i think i stopped capitalizing in the early days of email as some sort of protest at the lack of language skills typically displayed in business communication.

(i was prouder and less destructible in my youth.)

actually the variant spelling was from the economist. they did a book review of tuscan travel and (i will never forgot) approvingly noted the author's details like local deities: "the etruscan god of wine, pleasingly called 'fuflans'".

i decided then and there my next cat would be named fuflans. and that became my thing even after darling fuflans died way too young back in '08.

k now i have written too much as usual.

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I'm sad about that. I love her essays- she always seems to be speaking directly to me.

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1876. Wherein Vidal waxes cynical about the American political system (again, but he does it SO well!) It's good to be an Ontario teacher right now... 3 more days...

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He's turned it around!

U.S. House District 13 Dem - Primary: 82 of 506 precincts - 16 percent

Charles Rangel (i) 3,404 - 56 percent Adriano Espaillat 1,773 - 29 percent

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And the Hatch Man is looking to come back. From the Salt Lake Trib: <i>Hatch was leading by better than two-to-one with about 30,000 votes counted in the state’s most populous county.</i>

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Wingnuttery "stretches" about as well as Play-Doh. What makes it useful is how easily it's molded.

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still. i haz a sad about nora ephron.

anyone who causes laughter should be remarked.

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FWIW, I'll be on Medicare in four months and a few days, and I won't be saying that shit.

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I don't think it's Stockholm Syndrome -- these clowns have never been held hostage. It's more like "Reagan Syndrome" -- "The system worked for me, so it must work for everybody. Oh, and I've got mine."

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Incidentally -- and I realize that he is only one of a long list, but -- how is it that Ken Blackwell is not in prison?

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Gladys Knight and The Pips were the hard-luck Motown Band. They just couldn't catch a break.

When, at last, they had a real hit with "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye rushed out his cover and that was taken from them, as well.

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well i don't know about that, but they sure are cretans.

you know (and you probably do) my beloved fuflans is the etruscan version of pan / dionysus? only i spelled it wrong (fufluns is the preferred) so now i own my lesser spelling of a lower etruscan diety.

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And one of Gore Vidal's best books.

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yeah i was thinking 'shameful' but 'disgusting' is equally apt.

really, i haven't been snark worthy all day. i spent the afternoon listening to seniors rant on about 'this administration' 'stealing their savings' and 'destroying their healthcare' and i am pretty much only fit for the bottle.

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