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Zounds! Chicago-Style Politics!!

November 2nd, 2012 · No Comments

I don’t know if I am more aghast at the shrill idiocy within the text or the shameless copyright infringement of the Godfather design.

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Tags: film · language · politics

an e-mail from Ann Romney

September 27th, 2012 · No Comments

Received an e-mail from Ann Romney this morning, addressed to “John.” My reply: “John has decided to vote for Mr. Obama. Again.”

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Tags: politics · Twitter

Why Obama is a Muslim

September 13th, 2012 · No Comments

Overheard: “Have you heard that he never says ‘My prayers are with you.’ It’s always ‘My thoughts are with you.”

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Tags: politics · Twitter

Clean Chrome

April 10th, 2012 · No Comments

I was told by a co-worker today that our current civilization won’t last three more years, and that I’d better have my guns ready. It was then I realized that an Obama bumper sticker on my truck might not be a good idea.

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Tags: politics · Twitter

Obamasized?

January 1st, 2012 · No Comments

A customer (used loosely, nothing purchased) told me today he’d been “Obamasized,” meaning that he’d lost his job. Huh? This resource (http://tinyurl.com/8a6r64j ) did nothing to clear things up.

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Tags: politics · Twitter

Axe Me No Questions

October 7th, 2011 · No Comments

Was alarmed to hear that someone axed the President, then realized that it was merely a linguistic offense on “Politics Nation with Rev Al Sharpton.”

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Tags: language · politics · TV

Fear/Hate

August 4th, 2011 · No Comments

She picks it up, rifles through a couple pages, then tosses the AARP Bulletin across the table. I implore, with a quizzical brow furrow. “They used to be for older people, but now…” Her words dangle out there. “What?” She whispers: “Obama…” It trails from her, as a curse.

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Tags: language · politics

Shame of the Nation

August 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

It may never have occurred to many of his critics that Ted Kennedy acted as a mirror, showing them not only the best, but also the worst, in themselves.

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Tags: ideas · language · politics · self

You wouldn’t find beets growing in my garden, either.

March 20th, 2009 · No Comments

On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut.

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Tags: food · history

Maureen Dowd on Inauguration Day

January 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Not since Klaatu landed in a flying saucer on the Ellipse has Washington been so mesmerized by an object whirring through the sky.

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Tags: politics