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

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CRAZY AITS

                                                         3 days after the Exxon Valdez ran agroundOkay, so rules have to be broken sometimes. George Will likes to wax about the time he accompanied Ronny Reagan to some repub gathering during the '80 campaigns. Seems something was...
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DING DONGS, HO HOS & TWINKIES

                                                     POLITICAL FLUFFYou may have heard about it; The Civil War. The North fought the South to preserve the Union and free the slaves--except for those conscripted to work on the railroad for ten cents an hour. It has always...
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CURLY RAND AND CHICKEN SHEET

                                                                                           KENTUCKY CHICKENRon Paul is no fan of the so-called 'Gold Standard'. Yet Paul has a quirky obsession with the gold standard that just doesn't add up... Paul sent a lengthy email to supporters attributing his recent success to...
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PIRATES & BURGERS--Rated R for Raunchy

I had not seen Monty Python's The Meaning of Life for some time (1982). The beginning is all of four minutes and then the credits are shown as if the movie is over before it began; normal Python really....
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MYTHBUSTERS

           Mythbusters! You hear some strange myth in the urbanhood; Who will test it out? Mythbusters! Jamie's stache is weird, Andy's beard less rude Who'll remove all doubt? Mythbusters! They will make no idle boasts Tests are run by our...
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SOCIOPATHS

                                                          Vincent van Gogh, 1890Compassion:  (from Latin: "co-suffering") is a virtue --one in which the emotional capacities of...
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LOUISIANA 1927-2010

      TWO LOVES I HAVE OF COMFORT AND DESPAIR (SONNET144)What has happened down here is we are lost againThis time the crude got loose and it's causin' a lot of painThe crude gushed real hard and gushed for a...
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THE LITTLE PEOPLE

                                                                                 RAND PAUL                                                    ONE OF THE WEE PEOPLEOkay, so it is the bottom of the 9th,...
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KING OF THE RIGHT

                                                                                STEVE KING'S HEROI just came upon some secret correspondence between that namesake of that guy who likes to write about zombies and talking cars addressed to Sharron Angle, the current repub Senate Candidate in Nevada. I SHALL...
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SOCCER? YOU BROUGHT HER, YOU SOCK HER!!!

                                                                     SYMBOL OF WORLD GOVMENTWinston Churchill has come back from the grave to make this announcement: The United States stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power. It is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For...

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