Spitball Army

Hey, Soldier!

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Folks that have engaged me in political discussions probably know that I greatly admire Chris Matthews for his intelligence and energy and boundless curiosity. This sometimes throws people because – I think – the same attributes I admire in Matthews are characteristics that annoy the hell out of them (especially the over-the-top energy and shrillness of his speech).

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They found him this morning. Lying on Mexican tile in his kitchen with a peeled banana stuck in his mouth. He had an old Gianni Versace tie around his neck. Tied real tight in a half Windsor knot, and there was a bullet in his head.

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Langford made a show of “humility” over this past weekend by spewing fire and brimstone about the city’s crime rate while wearing a burlap sack over his Nike-insignia’d sport shirt, under a large banner bearing his name.

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I believe it’s warm where you are but it’s a darn sight hotter here.

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After the show, we went over to Manuel’s Tavern. The place was filled with Democrats. Democrats! They had the CNN wrap-up of the Pennsylvania primary on the big TV screens. It felt like Cambridge, but it was Atlanta.

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Did anyone notice? Was she speaking with poor grammar to engender identification with the “working class?” Were Princeton and Harvard helpless to teach her simple rules of English grammar?

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And just about everybody does it better than the capering loon who does soft-shoe in the White House while young Americans are dismembered and splattered in Iraq. Sometimes when he speaks I can forget who he is momentarily and find myself actually pulling for him; probably from misplaced performer empathy. His speechifying has a strong odor of remedial reading about it, combined with an apparent fear that there might be some hard words ahead.

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You got a finger in every pie,
Well what did I expect?
You made an art-form out of talking shit,
And partying ’til you’re wrecked.
In the small hours it’s so easy to feel
You’ve got some big ideas,
But in the morning you should put them away
‘Cause you know they’ll end in tears.

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Yes, it is true, according to baby-names.adoption.com. Hussein is an Arabic name for a male, and it means “handsome one.”

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