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Sep.03.2010
Poor Labor Day. Gets no respect. It's the Rodney Dangerfield of celebrations. The runt of the holiday litter. Just hearing the name conjures up depressing images of the last plastic souvenir sports bottle of lemonade poured on the dying charcoal briquettes of summer. It's the end of the bright...
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Aug.30.2010
A few years ago, anybody who spoke disparagingly of the president of the United States was immediately labeled a traitor and accused of coddling the terrorists with a back rub. Not any more. Hammering, slamming and pounding the president these days has once again become a cottage industry. A...
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Aug.14.2010
There have been easier times to be a Democrat. Think way way back to the halcyon days of two years ago. Summer of '08. Basking like a lazy cat napping in a sun-drenched window box. Now, not so much. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi must be thinking someone on her team swallowed a bad news...
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Aug.01.2010
To say the release of 91,000 classified documents has revealed a disconnect between our public position on Afghanistan and the actual situation on the ground is like inferring a disparity between yoga and bayonets. Dawn dishwashing liquid and green olive tapenade. A tray full of Southern Comfort...
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Jul.10.2010
Now let me get this straight. The World Cup is the most exciting sporting event on the face of the planet, right? OK, then. What's second place? The New England Spinsters Knitting Circle Seniors Tour? That would make Supermodels Filling In Crossword Puzzles With Leaky Ink Pens a close third....
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Jul.02.2010
Here's hoping your Independence Day is or was beyond terrific. Got to love the loudest and most American of all the holidays. Just one of the moments that makes a person prouder than papaya punch to be a citizen of this fine country. The greatest place on the planet, which is why we have all those...
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Jun.26.2010
Taking a breather from our Gulf Coast miasma in order to focus on an even ghastlier blight of cultural crude washing up on American shores. No, this is not about Lady Gaga. Although, I do intend to address walking parasites. Demon fiends. Bloodsucking vermin. The Ushers at the Gates of Hell...
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Jun.20.2010
In an age of relentless change, it's heartening to be able to count on a few simple things. Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann ranting and raving one pulse short of an aneurism. Water flowing downhill. Congress holding hearings whose only point is to express the indignant depths of their public outrage...
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Jun.08.2010
To say the news coming out of the Gulf is not what you call encouraging is like saying it's been a rough week for Dennis Hopper. And its making people crazy. No. Really. Crazy. Louisiana native and Democratic strategist, James Carville, went off on the President like a string of overstuffed...
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May.30.2010
The President may have wrestled Afghanistan and Iraq to shaky standoffs but the newest skirmish in the heads- up display of Air Force One shows him losing the third Gulf war and losing bad. Taking shots from both sides- from both sides. Republicans are yelling at Obama for holding BP responsible...
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May.20.2010
The best news the Democrats have gotten all year long has little to do with early primary results, or regenerating their spine with health care reform. The best news the Democrats have gotten all year is the chair of the Republican National Committee is going to keep his job. He's been a disaster...
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May.14.2010
There they go again. The Democrats, that is. All Mitch McConnell had to do was threaten to wave his arms and intone his mantra of "Activist Judges!" and they flinched like a red headed stepchild in goal at the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. On the other hand, when Republicans pick a Supreme...
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May.14.2010
There they go again. The Democrats, that is. All Mitch McConnell had to do was threaten to wave his arms and intone his mantra of "Activist Judges!" and they flinched like a red headed stepchild in goal at the NHL Stanley Cup Finals. On the other hand, when Republicans pick a Supreme Court nominee...
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May.08.2010
They've tried fire and robots and domes and booms and drones and boxes and rosary beads and even panty hose stuffed with human hair but so far nothing has slowed the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from creeping towards our Southern Coast like a drunken lobbyist staggering towards a free seafood buffet...
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May.02.2010
Got to admit, didn't find the Icelandic volcano spewing its guts over the last couple of weeks very upsetting. Of course, if you were one of the thousands forced to get up close and personal with airport terminal linoleum for days on end, I heartily apologize, but encourage you to consider it a...
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As the undisputed middleweight champ of the All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing, Will Durst is a sworn enemy to all tyrants, foreign and domestic. He has managed to patch together a comedy quilt of a career utilizing syndicated columns, radio and...
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