“I knew that nobody could be on television week after week as themselves and exist for any length of time, because no one has that rich a personality.... So I knew that I had to create some characters.
-- Jackie Gleason
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Friday, August 03, 2012
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To date, this is how the very few interactions I've had with Never Trumpers have gone, because I want to talk about the Befor...
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It wasn't a fluke. It wasn't pilot error. It wasn't instrument failure. This is what Republicans wanted, and now they have a...
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Can't you ... shouldn't you ... delete the unused part of your "new podcast" template every week? Week after week, you post the empty Links section of the template, with the lone, empty bullet. It looks lazy and sends the wrong "eh, whatever, good enough" message to your readers and listeners.
I don't know. This is probably like spelling or formatting: Many people just don't notice errors; it doesn't phase them at all. But for other people, the errors are like fingernails on a chalkboard.
I really wish the worst that would happen if I had an Obama bumper sticker on my car was it being pelted with a chicken sandwich. It is far more likely it would be pelted with buckshot or a clip of .223 rounds.
I would love to be able to spend an afternoon at a bar engaging in a high minded debate with a group of centrists....but there are non to be found out here.
One of my more recent experiences, in which I had the audacity to suggest, in my own living room, with someone I have known for years, that perhaps not everyone should have access to their own personnel arsenal..ended with the end of our communication entirely.
The problem is, there are huge swaths of this country, where the characters from that Pelosi video, are not the exception, they are the absolute rule.
...and it is absolutely a mental illness, and like many mental illnesses..it makes them dangerous. Not only will they not be persuaded, but they will vehemently hate you for disagreeing with them. You become the "other" and the other is dangerous, they are told that every day...
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