The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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MORT SAHL AND DAVID CROSS

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Mort Sahl explains politics in 1967:

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A NEW LOOK AT THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM

LAMAR ALEXANDER

 

THE NEW JOB PROGRAM

I have an idea that will really create jobs in this country.

I have studied this issue for decades.

And I have finally found the answer.

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EPISTOMOLOGY VS. NIHILISM

I have not been over to the Onion for sometime.

I come across this perverted 'news' from time to time.

I cannot find the link but the Onion article I caught spoke about the hazards of working in the subway.

It cited the 'fact' that some 25,000 workers die every year attempting to save mass transit in a particular area; NYC!

My reaction was (and still is) terrible.

Every time I read this faux news item, I found myself laughing uncontrollably.

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SUFFER UNTO ME THE LITTLE CHILDREN

Suffer unto me the little children. (mathew/19-14.htm)

If you can't do it;

Caddy

(me)

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AN ODE TO PAULA DEEN!

 

I think that I shall never see

A poem as lovely as Paula Deen

A Southern Lady with real taste

Who cooks the entire pig eschewing waste

 

A Southern Belle with the temerity

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WHERE HAVE ALL THE COMEDIANS GONE?

 

 

You know a friend of mine is a comedian and he had this gig in Vegas or somesuch and there were these Germans in the audience.

And he told me that following a comedic presentation there some Germans came back to have a tete-a-tete with him.

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WHITE WHITE RABBIT; TRIBUTE TO BACHMANN

Beckerhead and rush and savage and a number of other folks discovered that if they keep on the side of entertainment and skip real political analysis (without the need of fact checking) that they would be rewarded.

And rewarded they were, by the big bucks.

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SAMMY DAVIS, JR. & THE REPUBS!


 

HEDGE FUND PRICK

Billionaire hedge fund executive Paul Tudor Jones believes mothers don’t make good traders because having babies and breast-feeding are focus and ambition “killers.”

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