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What he said.

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Tell us how that would work, please.

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Besides the ones mentioned, they also did a really nice cover of Leonard Cohen’s “First We Take Manhattan”.

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“Can’t Get There From Here”

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Looks like he left his teeth back at the W.H.

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What happened to his teeth?

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Body parts?

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I’ve seen a game in that park many years ago. It was preseason, between the Yankees and I can’t remember who. It was part of a family reunion weekend and my mom had a close encounter with George Steinbrenner! I was parking the car while that happened and when she told me I thought she was kidding.

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Looks more like the Andromeda Galaxy than the Milky Way. But whoever lives there probably believes the same thing,

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Did Trump give RFK a can of his spray tan?

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It would! But that pesky Law of Unintended Consequences would probably rear its ugly head pretty quickly, I’m guessing.

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Seems to have forgotten his orange artificial tan.

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He’s also not orange. When’s the last time he’s been out in public without his artificial tan?

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Are we really sure that’s Trump? He’s not orange.

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Can’t be him. He’s not orange.

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Wish that would be true.

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Downtown Chicago is a terrific place to walk around.

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That looks like an “I’m not happy” face to me.

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I’m guessing that’s not a good thing.

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Thought the Nats might have a chance in the 9th inning, but they were doomed by a TOOTBLAN mistake.

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Bring back the Labor Day doubleheaders!

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Snuck up on me.

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I thought it pretty well captured the essence of Stephen Foster.

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Really nice! Hey, are you still performing “Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me”?

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Well, there’s the latest night stand-up comedian answer — spend most of it on babes and booze. And then just waste all the rest.

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Calling him a dingdong is being way too kind.

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Hi J.D. Your beard doesn’t look nearly as weird on you as I’d first thought. It’s only slightly weird.

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It’s been one week since the death of a good friend. I’m only now coming out of denial. file770.com/remembering-...

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I’m wishing he’ll be modeling orange jumpsuits. And starring in a perp walk video.

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The new installment of my personal time capsule is now online and has essays about small museums and a giant rocket, a brief celestial event and the ongoing zombie apocalypse, white snowy conditions and The Men in Black. And a lot more. Hope you’ll find it a good read! efanzines.com/MBP/MyBackPa...

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Have to wonder WTF the House Dems were thinking back in 2024 when they voted to save Mike Johnson’s ass.

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You got it in one.

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9:00am is my post-retirement default rise-and-shine time. Lights out, on the other hand, is usually about 1:00am. That post-midnight hour is a very peaceful time.

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I’ll look for it. Even today, more than a century after his death, anything by Mark Twain is still a good read.

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The publishers of Superman started giving him that pose back in the 1930s, which was well before Hitler started using something similar. And it’s not even the same pose. Supes’ arm is directly in a straight line with his body. Hitler extended his arm outward.

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Don’t throw that chickenshit at us. It’s been months since the orange bozo came into office. Plenty of time for a new generation of egg layers to mature.

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Hey, invite me! Never been to that stadium and I want to. Maybe I’ll make it back to Houston someday.

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Worst nightmare I’ve never had.

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They should try to indict the sandwich instead.

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All it takes to get Elon back on the MAGA team is to threaten to end all his government contracts.

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If Mitch McConnell had had the stones to push for conviction in the Senate following the J6 insurrection, this would all have been over years ago. But nooooooo.

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This.

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His Cabinet Secretaries can as well, but they all seem to be in a contest to see which one can cram his/her nose the farthest up Trump’s anus.

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You haven’t seen much of the Washington Nationals, I guess.

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Would be better yet if they’d send him photos of their middle fingers.

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Or maybe there wouldn’t. Yikes.

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Would have been entertaining if he had. There would have been spit takes all around the table.

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Sets a new gold standard for sucking up.

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I’d like to see Walz as the 2028 nominee. But I’m gonna vote for whoever the nominee is.

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They shoulda used his mug shot.

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Springsteen is gonna be 76 soon. Is he elderly?

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It really is. Based on a really fine novella by Ted Chiang.

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I’m ambivalent about it. I didn’t get past the first two Alien movies because I’m much not a fan of horror movies, even ones with a sci-fi veneer. On the other hand, the show runner is Noah Hawley who created five really good seasons of Fargo.

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And also all those GenZ bros who thought it would be just dandy to give Trump another four years.

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Heinlein once offered the advice to never do rewrites. He was wrong.

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Add to that: “untruth”. “Lie” is a much better word.

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For me, quite often that “sadistic bastard” is myself. I won’t rewrite unless I’m not happy with something about the original draft. But when I do, the second draft is almost always better.

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I’d suspect so. But it wouldn’t have made any difference. There just weren’t enough GOP Senators who had enough spine to vote for conviction.

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If it happens after the start of 2029 I hope we get to witness several indictments and convictions first. Really want to see him modeling an orange jumpsuit.

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Thought experiment: who’s the first of them we will see doing a perp walk?

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Pretty good movie. But the very best s-f film of the 21st century, hands down, is Inception.

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I think he was probably more annoyed about the STFU than being called a dilettante.

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Okay, so he’s a jerk. But let’s not lose track of the overall goals - to prevent a MAGA getting elected president in 2028 and the GOP from keeping control of Congress next year. Good candidates needed who have more than just niche appeal.

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I think the idea being presented is that by using some of these terms it makes one seem like an ivory tower dilettante. The voters who are going to decide the 2026 and 2028 elections are for the most part blue collar middle class. Speak to them using words they don’t have to look up in a dictionary.

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If he were still alive, Copernicus would give you a “like” for that.

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Maybe it’s covering up a surgically removed melanoma skin cancer? He’s out in the hot sun playing golf almost constantly.

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Hey, Sci-fi Reader. Has anybody ever told you that you come across to us as an AI bot?

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The object of this exercise is to win the Presidency so I think the best candidate would be a sitting Governor. Not necessarily Newsome. Walz, maybe. Assuming Spangberger wins this November in Virginia, maybe her. I like what I’m seeing from her but I think the nominee will be a white male.

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Compared to you, I’m a newbie.

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How can you tell what number you are? I have no idea what it is for me.

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I can kinda see why they went away from the plain lettered logo. They needed a graphic of some kind they could trademark.

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Let’s do a thought experiment. If there is a Democrat in the White House in 2029, who’s the first person in the current Trump regime that we see doing a perp walk? Show your work.

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I’m not a big fan of it. Way too much empty yellow space.

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Make some wine!

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Wouldn’t have made any difference. There was never going to be enough Republicans in the Senate who were willing to vote for conviction.

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Would not have made any difference in the end. There was never going to be enough GOP Senators willing to vote to convict. The real culprit is Mitch McConnell. He might have had enough clout, in his role of Senate Minority Leader, to get the votes they needed to convict. He was too cowardly to try.

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That was kind of my impression of Arthur Bryant’s in Kansas City. It was good Cue, no doubt about it. But I’ve had equally good BBQ in many other places.

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Sitting on one’s hands is one of the things that helped Trump win in 2024.

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Unfortunately, the Manfred Man is not the worst idea he’s ever had.

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Never been tempted to do that. There are many topics where, essentially, I’m as dumb as dog shit.

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Isn’t he the guy who thought elderly people should all die from Covid as a means of shortening the pandemic?

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Robert Earl Keen is really, really good.

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Wow, what an a-hole.

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The food there is pretty good. I’ve never had a bad meal there. Don’t care what their logo is.

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He’s a Grifter. With a capital G.

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He was terrific in The Good Place.

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I’m dubious. That would have required a very large multi-state conspiracy. Let’s not descend into Donald Trump territory.

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Hoping you will have a complete and complication-free recuperation.

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If he throws to the first baseman first, it’s an easy double play with tag at second base.

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The ghost of Andre Norton would like to have a word with you.

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Trump didn’t write this. It’s too coherent and isn’t all caps. Regardless, it’s still horseshit.

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Never mind.

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That is some serious froth at the mouth stuff!

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Downsizing in progress here, and disposition of all the signed books is still not decided. We have a lot of them. Maybe some worthy cause would be interested ?

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Tom Baker era: The Pyramids of Mars

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The third base coach was taking a pee break?

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Good bratwurst there too.

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*Yawn*

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That one wasn’t quite as entertaining as the others. These should all be collected under one cover!