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

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STRAIGHT TO HELL

                                                         Gustave Doré The gates slam in your face Chill creeps down your spine No one will let you in Your guilty of the crimes The...
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AN OBSCENE LOOK AT OUR FINANCIAL MARKETS

         Recently overheard at the offices of the SEC: What in the hell are you doing Amesly? Uh, nothing...I mean not nothing...I mean I dropped some coffee on me private parts Govner and I was just polishing it...er...wiping it off....
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TOO MANY ANGRY MEN

12 5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.  6And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and...
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NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON, Except For Good Old Joe Klein

                                                         THE AR15                                      You that never done nothin'                                      But build to destroy                                      You play with my world                                       Like it's your little toy                                      You put a gun in my hand                                      And you hide from my eyes                                      And you turn and...
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THE PLAY'S THE THING

                                                               THE OUTSIDE AGITATOR                     I am watching Righteous, a cop film starring Pacino and Deniro. If you get a chance check out Wiki on...
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LINCOLN & ALEXANDER

    A Man Reading The Presidential Proclamation by Henry Louis StephensYesterday was an important day in the history of America. Vanessa Dixon had to remind me of it as the date had faded from my senile cerebral machinery. It seems...
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CHAUCER: THE DEATH PANELS

             THE LADY SINGS THE BLUES! The feast was  proceeding along, swimmingly as the otters say. Lady Michele would be the last to speak at the feast. The Man of Steele noted to his companion the yeoman that the lady...
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GUNS & BLUSTER

                                               FRANKENSTEINThere are government sponsored death panels installed due to recent health care legislation. If you do not procure health insurance you are going to jail. Every American's bill for health insurance will go up $2,000 a year...
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A NONNES' TALE

             Is there no man, then, who, for prayer or hire, Will wake our comrade who's so far behind? A thief might easily rob him and bind. See how he's nodding, see, now by cock's bones, As if he'd fall...
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The Canterbury Tales: The Great Feast

                    Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote And bathed every veyne in swich licour, Of which vertu engendred is the flour;...

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