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✍ THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST? Bingo from C. Wright Mills: “People with advantages are loath to believe they just happen to be people with advantages.” C. Wright Mills Photographed By His Wife,...
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✍ TODAY’S QUOTE “The world is getting to be such a dangerous place a man is lucky to get out of it alive.” W.C. Fields ♢ THE WORRY GENERATION Parents in the year 2011-going-on-2012 are probably the...
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✍ THE QUOTE “Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” — Thomas Merton ♢ THE FUTURE KING OF THE UNITED STATES SPEAKS I played hooky from these precincts yesterday. It felt deliciously bad...
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✍ THE QUOTE “Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.” — Yogi Berra ♢ SANTORUM, THE LIBERAL Okay, the Republican presidential primary race has officially turned psychotic. Apparently, the...
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✍ THE QUOTE “I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.” — Kurt Cobain ♢ NIXON’S THE ONE Cynthia Nixon became a sorta-star appearing in that late 90s-early 00s paean...
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✍ THE QUOTE “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.” — Albert...
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✍ THE QUOTE “I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” — Ernest Hemingway ♢ Scary? Scary How? Just a tidbit from Bill Maher’s latest spew: “If Obama were as radical...
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✍ THE QUOTE “Physics isn’t a religion. If it were, we’d have a much easier time raising money.” — Leon Lederman ▲ THEY’RE BA-A-A-A-A-ACK! Yup. The students start moving in today. And you thought the...
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✍ THE QUOTE “Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.” — Larry Flynt ▲ HERESY I...
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The Rich: How They Get That Way Kids, you have to read this smart — and smart-assed — work of art by a performance artist named Revolva (h/t to B-town’s hoop queen Paula Chambers for pointing it out.)...
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