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"Those who cannot remember George Santayana are condemned to misquote him."
I asked a tour guide at San Simeon if the madonna above the main entrance of La Casa Grande was the one Dorothy Parker had written about, and he said, "Who's Dorothy Parker?"
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I've often wondered: shouldn't Kim Jong Un actually be Kim Jong Deux?
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Nixon used an overseas junket to distract public attention from the simmering Watergate scandal. When he returned, he was greeted at Andrews AFB by an Air Force band playing "Washington Post."
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Well, at least I know now about one-ingredient ice cream.
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CRISIS ACTORS!
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I always thought a seer sucker was someone who paid money to a fortune teller.
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Go Bears!
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That's why it's so dark there (I learned this by reading Through the looking glass).
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Stochastic terrorism is here.
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It all starts with "Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?"
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Who impeached him twice, indicted him thrice? The federal government. Payback time!
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Hyundai may have felt that since so many Americans have spare tires — whether they own a car or not — they don't have to put one in their automobiles.
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Republicans are working on press statements drawing a distinction between tarring and feathering Democratic officials and shooting them.
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You attributed the quote to the wrong person. It wasn't Kristi Noem, it was DHS Barbie who said it.
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Mike "self-appointed Moses" Johnson would probably tell you that he was talking about tarring and feathering, not shooting, and that makes all the difference in the world.
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When the Golden Gate bridge celebrated its 50th birthday in 1987, it was closed to auto traffic and opened to pedestrians. The span is normally arched upward but was bent flat by the weight of the human bodies standing on it. Don't discount body weight!
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Perade is a refreshing drink made by mixing Kool-Aid with hydrogen peroxide. The Kool-Aid satisfies your figurative craving to be blindly obedient, and the peroxide protects you from Covid by bleaching your guts.
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To make it worse, it's one of two. The gunman was out to kill a number of DFL officials but had to abandon his project when the police showed up at the second shooting scene before he expected them.
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A rainy day parade — even if it's spelled right — brings wet, annoyed soldiers, particularly when it takes place on what would have been their day off.
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The genie is out of the bottle.
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I'm getting a Covid booster on Monday while it's still legal.
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Part of the gentleman's agreement is the definition of what the system is. If it's a combination of authoritarian government, white supremacy and laissez-faire capitalism, the rules sort of rewrite themselves to suit the definition.
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It's interesting that death now comes in different grades. Is that another MAGA innovation?
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I took Poli Sci 1 (American government) from Peter Odegaard a lifetime ago. There I learned about the fundamental stability of US institutions. Now I see how naïve Odegaard was. The foundation of the system is a gentleman's agreement that everybody will follow the rules. Absent that, anything goes.
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St Swithin's day, if thou dost rain,
For forty days it will remain;
St Swithin's day, if thou be fair,
For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
(It's a month early for St. Swithin's Day, but you get the idea.)
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Maybe it's just me, but it seems to me that this kind of event would have been highly improbable had Kamala Harris won the election. Trump has created a climate that fosters partisan violence.
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was always amused to watch the war-hardened NCOs when they blew Retreat at 1630. At the first crackle of the loudspeaker, they would run at top speed for the nearest door to duck inside so they wouldn't have to stand at attention out in the open, saluting an invisible flag.
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My internet router was installed by a white legacy-American technician, and it didn't work. Comcast then sent me an immigrant from West Africa named Modou. He not only repaired the damage caused by the first guy; he was an entertaining conversationalist. Give me an immigrant every time.
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Has it struck anyone other than me how prophetic Men in Black was when it depicted a government agency whose source of actionable intelligence is the National Enquirer?
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In one year, 11 months, and 29 days of military service, I managed to avoid more than one day each of KP, guard duty, and marching in a parade. I think I can speak for most if not all of the soldiers participating in Trump's birthday parade when I say that they don't want to be there.
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Have you considered the possibility that incompetence and lack of qualification are actually Trump's hiring criteria? If it looks as if he is deliberately trying to wreck the US government, maybe he really is.
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Murder defendant whining that he doesn't know how to manufacture a pistol like the one he used to kill the victim.
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The only thing I can think of worse than that would be firing the staff of the agency that oversees the US nuclear arsenal…oh wait, they did.
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Actually, I'm not naïve at all. It's obvious that the right-wing dregs of the Confederacy need a foreign or dark-skinned boogeyman to populate their white supremacy fantasies, because without it they would melt like the Wicked Witch of the West.
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HuffPost should save its headlines to report when Trump administration spokespersons *don't* lie. That's a case of the man biting the dog.
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Father, eyes glued to his smartphone, says to his children sitting on the couch five feet away, their eyes glued to their smartphones: "You kids need to enjoy the beauty of nature. I'm sending you a link to pictures of forests and waterfalls."
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Maybe I'm just naïve, but wouldn't our time and money be better used to solve the undocumented workers problem by documenting instead of deporting them? Get their personal information, give them official ID, problem solved.
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My son used to own two restaurants but is now out of the restaurant business, so I am free to disclose that he used to employ undocumented immigrants. They were his most reliable, trustworthy, and hardest working employees.
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My sources tell me that Trump will soon sign an Executive Order redefining "FOIA" as a preposition, as in "Here's five hundred thousand dollars FOIA campaign fund."
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Alexander the Great tried to obliterate the Persian empire 2300 years ago, and look at what came of that. You have to give him credit for conquering Afghanistan, though. Nobody else has ever managed it.
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The most recent TACO moment is Trump's Pauline conversion on the subject of migrant farm labor. After years of accusing migrant workers of horrendous crimes, he has, out of the blue, discovered they have been the salt of the earth all along.
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The thought of agreeing with Tucker Carlson makesme want to toss my cookies, but given Iran's investment in its nuclear program and the amount of resistance Iran has put up against attempts to rein it in, it's predictable that they won't take this lying down.
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MAGA is like the dyslexic who, unable to admit his own failings, retired to the Alaskan wilderness, where he now lives in Denali.
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So far.
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Driverless cars also opens a huge can of legal worms. Who is liable for damages? is a question that will dwarf asbestosis as a source of funding for the legal profession.
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I have some experience with fiberglass. It works on boats, so it ought to work on faces, too.
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My theory is that she's market testing a line of DHS Barbie outfits for Mattel.
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I'm old enough to remember November 1978, when Dan White murdered Harvey Milk and SF mayor George Mosconi, 900 members of the People's Temple were the victims of a murder-suicide in Jonestown, and a mob of Khomeini supporters warmed up for 1979 by attacking the British embassy in Tehran.
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The only year in human memory that Berkeley went to the Rose Bowl was the one when I went to all the home games. Ditto for the basketball team. Both years I went to the Golden Bears' home games, they won the NCAA. UC would have flopped if I hadn't been in the rooting section. I'm like Trump in that.
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It seems like the battles of Marathon and Salamis were only yesterday. I believe I was washing to dishes at the time.
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Of course he won't speak. He'll egest verbal diarrhea.