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Andrew Grove:

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

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Nicholas Kristoff argues that Fox News is Donald Trump’s invisible protective shield. A snippet:

Researchers have found that Fox News isn’t very effective at informing Americans. A 2012 study by Fairleigh Dickinson University reported that watching Fox News had “a negative impact on people’s current events knowledge.”

The study found that those who regularly watched Fox News actually knew less about both domestic and international issues than those who watched no news at all.

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Robin Hood, by J. Walker McSpadden.

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A Map of the Future . . . 0

. . . and it ain’t pretty.

And that leaves out the middle of the North America, which in prehistoric times was a sea.

I believe that we are well past the tipping point, and I fear for my children.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

The hunt for politeness continues with a brace of hunted hunters.

Words fail me.

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Trumpling the First Thanksgiving 0

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Twits on Twitter 0

The bully’s pulpit.

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Suing for the Whole Enchilada 0

Actually, for a taco and the fine print.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

In a side note, the BBC used this tune as the theme song for its radio adaptation of six Philip Marlowe mysteries.

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The Entitlement Society, Redux 0

Monopoly Man as vampire labeled

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The Entitlement Society 0

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In Plain Sight 0

Interviewer:  What do you make of the President's witness intimidation in real time?  Guest:  I better not say,  Trump just sent me a message to

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Overruled 0

Attorney and client before a judge.  Attorney says,

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite to your siblings.

A 28-year-old Lowell man is in stable condition after accidentally being shot by his brother while hunting in Boston Township Saturday.

Musical NotesGuns and stupid, guns and stupid,
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you, brother,
You can’t have one without the other.

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“Man on the Run” 0

Shaun Mullen.

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Dorothy Thompson:

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument — the Incorporated National Will.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Graven Craven Images 0

Picture of child looking a wall on which is written a bunch of scribbles and the words,

Via Job’s Anger.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

A polite society is a clean society.

Even though she asked her doctor and family to keep the baby’s sex a secret and asked her mom to throw a gender reveal party for her, she still knew in her heart the life she was carrying was a little girl. Teresa was 21 weeks pregnant when she died, and she had already picked out a name for her daughter — Luna.

Teresa died Monday night in what police said was an accidental shooting, sparked when her boyfriend, 18-year-old Shawn Patrick Burse, was cleaning a loaded rifle beside her.

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