All I want to hear is real stuff.

It ain't over by a stretch, but I can call the game, and I won. The prize, a silver cup inscribed “ Now What?”

Hire Wire - The Aerialist YouTube video by Chaka Khan - Topic

My song. That's me, from vine to vine.

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My Ma, in her late 90s, lamented the loss of nearly everyone she’d known. When she died, her 101-year-old friend wept through the same sadness. I sat and sit through this familiar grief grateful for the light.
45 years ago a maelstrom descended and swallowed more than everyone I knew. Darkness.

Superwoman (Where Were You When I Needed You) YouTube video by Quincy Jones - Topic

Yeah, what about that?

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On a bright spring day, I am conscious of sitting here at a Tulip Table in the morning light, awash in jazz, glowing with dermatology. I make good coffee.
Your absence does not overwhelm me but I can feel the undertow, and I live for the day I give in to it. Not soon, but surely.

Fiberace

The Pestilence of The United States

Here’s the very simple truth. We should ban all Gerrymandering.

Until then, to unilaterally disarm is political suicide and malpractice.

All Coke should be Vanilla Coke.
Just my two cents, if over-priced.

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Wow, they must have had their best investigators on this hard-to-crack case. He’s so not obvious.

Fluffy is carrying on. Such a precious babe.

What WaPo subscription? I hate the sobs.

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Nothing he does is pure but his treachery. He could be following orders.

Yeah, his cabinet will definitely oust him, now. Whatever.

It's not as though he is sane enough or honest enough to be worth the bother of trying to deal with him.

Asshole

Respectful? Like you? Pffft

Maybe they hate the SOB as much as everyone else does. It's not my fault!that I'm a citizen of this fucked up country. The failings aren't mine to own. I don't say stupid shit about Canadians.
Elbows up yours.

Maple syrup

He should be burned, the ashes buried, the earth salted. The only thing lower than his conduct is his renunciation of it.

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I hate him and them for this.

When were they ever pretending?

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No, it couldn't be-
The most brazen, obvious criminal on the planet couldn't possibly be the most brazen, obvious criminal on the planet, could he? Not possibly.