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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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Annoyance Conundrum Necessary Politics
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Country Else Government Idea Prefer Sensible Somebody
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Hope Ideology Imptent Journalism Joy Luxuniate Politics
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they’re right.
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East Everybody Explain Middle Right
Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
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Bureaucracy Dispose Dump Government Propose
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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Government Human Nature Need
Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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Advocate Animal Association Head Lice National Own Prediculosis
Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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Military People Revolution Rich Shoe Terrorism Uniform
America wasn’t founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.
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Anything Better Country Damned Found Please
I’ve got a 1990 Porsche 911. It’s just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
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Got Little Love Simple Straightforward Thing
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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Except Love never Unfaithful Wife
Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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Everybody Everything Happy Idea Insane Law Liberal
The most brilliant satire of all time was ‘A Modest Proposal’ by Jonathan Swift. You’ll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.
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Brilliant Everything Midwest Most Notice Proposal Satire Straightforward Time
The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry – knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.
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Billow Chivalry Dress Health Jerkin Knight Lady Sidesaddle Think Wimple
Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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Irritate Let More Nuisance Other President
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
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Better Average Citizen Country French Monkey Smallish

The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can’t do, shouldn’t do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

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