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

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                         THE INFLUENCE (By Nast)

Grandpa died last week and now he’s buried in the rocks. Everybody still talks about how badly they were shocked. But me, I expected it to happen. I knew he lost control. When he built a fire on mainstreet and shot it full of holes. BDylan

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DANA MILBANK & THE MORMONS

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                            GLENN BECK IN UNIFORM

Talk about Jewish fatigue. ahahahah (Q thinks if I mention Jewish Fatigue I get extra reads. hahahahah)

Dana Milbank used to be a favorite pundit of mine. Then he got into some scuffle with Keith Olbermann and kind faded away.

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KING PERRY

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                                  THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

Frank Rich in describing O’Donnell the candidate for Biden’s old Senate seat in Delaware gave the best description of the Republican Party I have come across in some time:

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MONSTER MASH


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THE END IS NEAR!!

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A week from tomorrow, it will be 10/10/10.

The tenth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of the new millenium.

Ominous?

I am sure God is attempting to tell me something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxr-fbtV1-8

A little over four years ago I decided to prepare for the end of things.

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CONFESSIONS

 

 

This entire narrative is taken from my own vague memories. I cannot access archives of the Minneapolis Tribune partly because it costs money and partly because the archives available only go back to 1986.

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AMERICAN PIE

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                      THE NEW WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION

 

I am having trouble concentrating today because my attention has been redrawn to the first year of the previous Presidential Administration.

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MILLER'S MALICIOUS MILITIAS & CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

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                               DOMESTIC TERRORIST

 

 

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SARAH'S MINI ME

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      CHRISTINE O'DONNELL

Christine O’Donnell wants to be Sarah Palin when she grows up.

But before we get to that, I must discuss the caste system currently prevalent in the United States of America today.

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JOHN MADDEN TO HOST MEET THE PRESS

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                                  POLITICAL STRATAGEMS

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CONFUSION, OBFUSCATION & CLARITY

 

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                          CLARITY IN WINE

 

There is confusion at times:

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MICHAEL STEELE STARRING AS FAUSTUS!

 

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Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it

 

I found this gem at Huffpo today:

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BARBARIANS AT THE GATE


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                TWO TEABAGGERS REACHING THE U.S. SENATE

 

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A TEA PARTY

                                         THE NEW NATIONAL REPUB PARTY

Let the jury consider their verdict," the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.

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LIFE IN A BOX


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The problem with life is that there are no clear directions on the box it comes in!!!

Oh we receive hints from time to time.

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WHAT IS A MOTHER TO DO?

 

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                         HAPPY HANDSOME MAN

 

WHAT IS CAPITALISM?

 

I was thinking about this today as I listened to old FOX rantings.

Oh it is magic!!! They say

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