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✍ THE QUOTE “If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.” — Mark Twain ♢ THE END When I was a kid, magazines often carried cartoons featuring a...
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✍ THE QUOTE “Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.” — Mark Twain ♢ SUNDAY THINGS TO DO Click. ♢ [SILENCE] I have nothing to say today. ♢
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✍ THE QUOTE “The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.” — Theodore H. White ♢ SUMMERTIME AND THE BREATHIN’ IS WHEEZY Hooray for summer! Today’s the first Ozone...
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✍ THE QUOTE “The lack of money is the root of all evil.” — Mark Twain ▲ PAY ‘EM: DAY 2 First things first: The Chicago Teachers Union strike is not about the children. So let’s stop that silly,...
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✍ THE QUOTE “I never let my schooling get in the way of my education.” — Mark Twain ▲ PAY ‘EM: DAY 6 So, Chicago Teachers Union reps vote on the new CBA tomorrow. And now the post-mortems begin. For...
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■ THE QUOTE “We have the best government that money can buy.” — Mark Twain ▲ MONEY TALK Those on my side of the fence seem giddy that the plutocrats who sank hundreds of millions of dollars into last...
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■ THE QUOTE “We build a fire in a powder magazine, then double the fire department to put it out. We inflame wild beasts with the smell of blood, and then innocently wonder at the wave of brutal...
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Hot Air, As Usual
The Joy Of Killing!* Here’s a follow-up to Saturday’s entry about whether or not it is good policy to want to die for your beliefs. My assertion was it seems senseless to want to do so. I quoted...
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Hot Air
And I Quote… You know those quizzes that are cluttering up the interwebs these days? The ones that tell you what or who you were in a previous life, whether you’re a liberal or a conservative (as if...
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Hot Air
Veterans Day The War Prayer, from Mark Twain: Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth into battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet...
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What Kids Know
The other day I posted a thing on social media saying something on the order of the term guerrilla came to mind…. Oh hell, here’s a screenshot of the post: The post, apparently, triggered a lot of...
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