The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.
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I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
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And we didn’t need to worry about foreign websites illegally distributing the latest TV shows and blockbuster movies online.
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During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president.
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Let’s keep the Internet weird. Let’s keep the Internet free.
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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.
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I don’t know what happens to you after you die. I’m not banking on there being, like, a heaven.
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But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. ‘That worked for everyone else,’ God said.
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Technology is an incredible tool – it connects people to each other.
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They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.
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We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.
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We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we’d discuss it with our parents.
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But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, ‘Hi’ to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.
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Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe.
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I’m the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota.
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The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
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