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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Proust had his madeleines; for us, it's the smell of Testor's.

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All the stuff about Jeesus is in very fine print.

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All I can say is that my infelicitous choice of preposition still puts my work head and shoulders above that of most of my students. Oh my god this is tedious work for a Saturday afternoon.

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Is Bradlee an immigrant? English is clearly not his first language.

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The new regime will begin in Dodge City.

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How much for shipping and handling?

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I watched part of the video. If Bradlee thinks that freedom is proportional to the body count of a certain battle, and, by his own admission, D-Day was a complete organizational fuck-up, it would appear that to be truly free you need to be disorganized and fucked-up. Welcome to the Tea Party, I suppose.

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--- Old Blood and Guts

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Amazing how those dominos fell over (well, a couple of them) and then magically got back up again.

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That's why you need the magnifier.

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I dunno. Have you checked with Louisiana?

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"hoping to observe the spontaneous combustion"

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But Professor Irwin Corey was funny.

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i tried that but magnets don't work on stainless fridges.

fucking constitution.

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The date it starts is a surprise.

It has to work around George Soros' calendar.

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