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Do yourself a favor: Don't read a book about Whitey Bulger, Irish-American gangsters, South Boston, and the 1960's Boston busing crisis the week before St. Patrick's Day. It sort of kills the festive spirit.---
We've got Dianne Feinstein on record now: CIA spying on everybody but her, good. CIA spying on her, bad.
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Remember that long-hyped story about how America would one day be dealing dramatically with an openly-gay athlete competing in one of its major team sports? Well, less than three weeks after his debut, the story is deader than Sarah Palin's political career.
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It seems like a time-waster, no, to listen to advice on Russia from the architects of the Iraq and Afghan wars?
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Zora Neale Hurston:
"There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the feet; impulses smothered too long in the fetid air of underground caves. The soul lives in a sickly air. People can be slave-ships in shoes."
posted by CM @ 10:23 PM
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