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The only thing from the '80s that I want to bring back is neighborhood video stores featuring a wide selection of sleazy horror flicks. My adopted city of Seattle has one, but every city needs at least one.

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Before 2000, Tennessee produced people like Al Gore. After the 2000 elections and then 9/11, something changed.

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Ha ha Michael Moore gets it! UN election observers would be appropriate.

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So, something new the South can be the worst in the country at.

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They have yet to figure out that preventing hiv transmission in the high-risk groups will in turn lower transmission to the "good people" but I'm using logic, so my bad

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A race straight to the bottom

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True. Even though I wanted to smack the unvaxxed upside their heads when they turned up in my er, sick as hell, I checked my attitude at the door. Did I talk about them with my equally frustrated colleagues? Yes

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True. Ironic that their unintended consequences led to the very thing they are most afraid of

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She Who Watches is one of my favorites.

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Yeah, sure, fuck my blood pressure, I'll seek it out while drinking.

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The practice of distributing federal money to the states makes sense. What the states already know about their individual needs would be an expensive, time-consuming, inefficient project for the Feds to attempt.

Unless the states aren't willing to do what's best for their citizens. If Tennessee won't distribute these funds based on scientific analysis, the Feds still have an obligation to provide funding to protect its most vulnerable citizens.

Time to cut out the middleman if he's actively harming U. S. citizens with his decisions.

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I left in 1979, and the honkytonks were disneyfied tourist traps sucking up bucks on past glories. We went to a place called "Skull's" in Printers Alley. The owner of "Skull's" was a gentleman named Skull. He wore a big, silver skull belt buckle, hence the name. Basically a comedy club with sleazy adult comedy and a two-drink minimum.

Oh, and Skull's, the person's, claim to fame was being a semi-regular on "Hee Haw Honeys."

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With what we pay them, they can't afford actual adrenochrome. You take what you can get.

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Taking up the practice of their Federal role models, the southern states have decided to simply adopt the Articles of the Confederacy, because they like them better than the Constitution.

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Just a spoonful of decorum helps the medicine go down.

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"Have you seen the commercials for those drugs? It's like Saturday night on Fire Island."

Tucker Carlson in 3,2,1...

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