“No, I didn’t see the speech. What did he say?” “It was exhilarating. I’m still tingling.” “What did he say?” “He was in rare form. Dignity. Poise. Handsome.”“Nonsense. He looks like Stan Laurel’s mulatto love child. What did he say?”“His inflection, his tempo. Just perfect.”“What did he say?” “His is a rare eloquence. He struckContinue reading “Shooting the Blue State Bar Bull”
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Red State Bar Banter
“Are you kidding me? John McCain is a lunatic. ‘More wars.’ Where, John? Who do you have in mind? Anyone in particular? Or is it just the war part that’s important? And this ‘hundred years’ in Iraq business. ‘Cause Iraq is just like Japan or Korea, which it of course isn’t, but it only getsContinue reading “Red State Bar Banter”
Sitting in a Bar in Granite Falls
“Hey, if it isn’t the diehard partisan. How’s tricks?”“Screw you.” “Buy you a beer?”“I’ll buy my own. Hey Mike, Jack straight up.” “Whoa. Worse than I thought. Buck up, amigo; I’m sure Saddam’s death sentence will enliven, so to speak, the base, no?”“He gassed his own people!” “How about that Foley character?”“Ain’t it just likeContinue reading “Sitting in a Bar in Granite Falls”
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