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Life is fraught with tough decisions. Taking down a 450-pound silverback male gorilla with a 3-year-old child in his possession is not one of them. Sure it was sad for the ape who just turned 17 and had his whole life before him, albeit in...
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I nearly choked on my Lean Cuisine Vermont white cheddar mac and cheese last night when Lester Holt casually mentioned Donald Trump’s new delegate count. 666. Of course that’s a fluid number and today, with additional delegates from Illinois and Missouri, it’s moved on to...
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I’m a big fan of writer/actor, Albert Brooks and joyously follow him on Twitter. But his unfunny post after the New Hampshire primary threw me for a loop. “Trump and Sanders win New Hampshire. There should be a joke there but I am genuinely scared,”...
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As a lifelong Michigander, I’m particularly disgusted by what’s going on 165 miles away in Flint. This once thriving town fell hard in the 1980s when General Motors closed nearly all of their auto plants. In 1978, GM employed 80,000 Flint workers. Today it’s around...
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It’s not easy being a news junkie these days. The ISIS crisis is reason enough to unplug the TV and mute the breaking news alerts forever. These jihadists, too merciless for al-Qaeda, have beheaded, raped and burned people alive. But they were just getting warmed...
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I was a closet Democrat during the Oval Office blowjob, Al Gore lockbox and WMD years. It didn’t help that I worked for a global corporation that brought right wing politics into company town halls and allowed employees to hold prayer meetings before the 8...
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The Black Lives Matter movement makes some people uncomfortable. And so those folks counter with “All Lives Matter.” But that’s like telling a hungry girl in Appalachia there are starving children all over the world. It dismisses her condition and implies she needs to quit...
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