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and Francis Bacon

The moon might make for a quiet getaway. Else Abilene Texas for dinner.

Rome burned. Inexplicably,

bottles of beer

Like all caves,

moment of self-aggrandizement

a Watercooler post

of Middlesex, proving

eternal dinky-donut hole

Einstein once said,

Of course the U.S. already has socialized medicine--medicare and medicaid, which cover some, but not all, of the fringes. From one point of view ObamaCare proposes to reduce the fringes.

fish named humuhumunukukuapua'a (though his friends just called him Bill)

Nah...that was cogent...and kept the thread alive...

Is purgatory still an option these days?

So there's hope for the post-50 crowd. Good to know... I would argue if someone depends on someone else for some source of income or power, etc, that someone else's perception (whether it is impertinent, misinformed, or, as Brian says, stupid) may influence that someone's source of income or...