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I anxious to read about '82. That's when I was born. Oh, and I always new Reagan was a terrible president, but I never to the spectrum on stupidity and greed until reading the prologue.

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SorosBot: You beat me to it! Anyone interested in this excellent book should read: <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blo..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102040001">http://mediamatters.org/blo...

It's no knock on the book Ken recommends to suggest it isn't the only one - but, perhaps, like so many of us he just remembers his love as his best love...

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Reading the free chapter online about the 80s explains why I drank so much during that time. It was a very bleary morning in America.

<i>12/22/81 As Christmas approaches, President Reagan authorizes the distribution of 30 million pounds of surplus cheese to the poor. According to a government official, the cheese is well over a year old and has reached "critical inventory situation." Translation: it's moldy.</i>

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...remember that one kid in the neighborhood that swore to almighty God that wrestling was real and there wasn't a damn thing anyone could say to him to convince him otherwise?! Well, all those dumb-asses who worship Reagan's legacy are the adult equivalent!!!

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...yeah and the fact that they enjoyed watching 2 greased up men in nothing more than underwear and leather boots wrestling with each other, kinda explains a lot doesn't it?

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Apparently I "don't have time to be sick" and should buy some cold medicine. I really don't have time to be sick (how'd they know that?) but I also rarely get sick...suck on that, Cold-Eze!

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Let us all unite against short-fingered vulgarians!

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Not Oliver North's?

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