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    farewell to the king

    Ted Kennedy stumbled into my awareness sometime in the mid-70s, as the butt of late-night jokes. I didn’t understand the references to driving and bridges and drowning, but I did understand that this Kennedy was some relation to the demi-god who was assassinated before I was born, and his younger brother, who was assassinated shortly after.

    I felt my birth order position keenly in [...]



    more like malaise redux

    Jim DeMint may be a ridiculous asshole:

    [W]e’re about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy. You still had votes but the votes were just power grabs like you see in Iran, and other places in South America, like Chavez is running down in Venezuela. People become more dependent on the government so that they’re easy [...]



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    As of today, I’ve been at this three years, with more than 1,800 posts over at my place, just over 1.64 posts a day.

    While my cynical husband wonders what good all my blathering has done, I can point to one small benefit: my mental health has been – at least somewhat – preserved, in spite of the worst BushCo can [...]