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This made me laugh, a good laugh. I've been laughing at the ridiculousness for a little while, and now I feel vindicated. I'm living in China right now, and the average Chinese person knows exactly (well, close to exactly) what's going on, but they can't do anything about it and the smarter folks kind of shrug and laugh and go on about whatever it is they were doing. In fact, it's kind of like bad manners to even bring it up. Everyone knows the score, so why are you stupid foreigners always telling us what we already know?

Thanks for this.

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Perfect. Just perfect!

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Love this column! Just shared it all around.

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Thank you for a huge laugh to start my day!

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Thank you Dear Mr. Keillor! I love it when you take the gloves off. Thank you for speaking truth.

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I'll take the choco cake with the 3 scoops of vanilla.

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It looks like a killer brownie they make at Dorothy Lane market near me in Ohio.

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I think you should treat yourself to one today!

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Laughed out loud each of the three times I read it, and it’s only 7 am. Let me commend you on your mastery of Slovenian.

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Thank you from the bottom of my heart! I love your recent columns regarding cheerfulness, but a heartfelt political groan is most welcome. If the blood boils every so often, better that it’s for the dummies in our government than for the lack of a pen to sign a check or some such.

Didn’t that feel good?

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Your description of politics as "a conclave of sociopaths or an ostrich jubilee" is perfect, thank you for this. Perhaps it might lower anxiety levels to look for the potatoes among the socks and the rutabagas in the medicine cabinet. 😊

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TCM has been airing Oscar winning films the past few weeks. I watched "A Man for All Seasons" yesterday and was struck by the scenes with King Henry VIII (acted by Robert Shaw). They brought to mind the former President, his erratic and bullying behavior, and the patronizing and cowardly behavior of his "loyal" entourage. The parallels were disturbing. Only Sir Thomas More had the moral courage and conviction to stand firm in the film (and history) and was beheaded for it. What American Republican Statesman (or woman) can, and more importantly - will - stand firm in our present day? Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, Adam Kinzinger, Jeff Flake, John McCain, and yes, even Mike Pence when he needed to, come to mind...

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"A Man For All Seasons" is one of my favorite all -time movies, and its contemporary relevance shines again. "Becket" is another that dramatically demonstrates the moral dilemma of loyalty to a king versus love of country, and is also a marvelous work, and Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton ... Pretty, pretty good.

And,yes, to TCM's annual month of Oscar winners. TCM is so good.

It's interesting to realize how many of those movies from the late 1930s and 1940s with themes of fascism, corruption, espionage, patriotism, profiteering, etc. are pertinent today.

Have we learned nothing?

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From today's first reading:

However, take care and be earnestly on your guard

not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen,

nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live,

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"Ohio, The Heart of It All" is the state slogan again. The pro- 🍊 people are all around me, thus many opportunities to be amused as a response.

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Yes! I will vote for sanity in Dayton

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Ohio advertises like crazy in blue states to entice smart people to move there. I know four who have moved there, and they won't be voting for Lord Sunkist of trump Stolp.

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Keep the peace if we can, or we will have more pieces than we can handle. Take note! That has happened alrerady. The missing factor is caring for each other no matter. These armed pre-teens shoot to kill but don't know a target when they see it, so they spray their death among each other. Such a waste of life and unclear, uncertain death.

To quote Mr. Keillor we need to "learn to love," and it's a lot more than democracy. We need to love each other.

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Did you write all of this before you had coffee? Maybe it's tea, but now that you have that out of your system, you should feel better. Or not. Made my day a funny one with that part about masturbation. You covered it all. And I can't stop laughing because I might cry.

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There’s a lot to unpack here. Is the Slovenian castle a kind of rural headquarters like Hitlers Berghof in Bavaria where the mango Mussolini gets to frolic while the world burns. Is it Slovenia because that’s where his wife and in-laws will be deported when the soon to be brown shirted local partisans come for them? It’s hard to picture and it borders on fantasy when I try to presume that someone unable to speak his native English will learn the local language.

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Another belly laugh here. Thank you.

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Slovenia is a beautiful country with friendly, smart people. Melania is not a hero in Slovenia. Do not inflict 45 on them.

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