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My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.

P. J. O'Rourke

Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.
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Bote Careless Conceal Every Bote Harmful Number Serial Trace Vote
Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.
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Flatter Gossip Object Present
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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Government Illegal Product Sell
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Alcohol Anyway Fundamental Look Source Tets Trouble
Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.
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Everybody Extent Xenophobia
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
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Affair Force Great Human Stupid
If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.
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Economic Hour Language People Place Political Seventy Social Spend Talk Two
Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that’s when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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Done Endless Foreigner God Like Lousy Party Politics School Some Thing Wrong
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
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Accept Blink Eye Gay Happen Marriage
They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’
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Absolute Love People Really Say Script Stupid Write
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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Adept Avoid Even Learn More Young
All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Bad Change Done Sometimes
The baby boomers’ politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there’s been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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Baby Band Boomer Covered Great People Silliness Type Underground
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
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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Creep Economy Enfeeble Evil Image Individual Law Rule
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
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Come Creep Duty Enfeeble Evil Human Law Plan Rule

My dad died when I was young; my mom remarried with more haste than sense to a fellow… he wasn’t evil or anything, but he was worthless.

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