l- Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck. – Eli Wallach

2- sometimes  you see the / end is near but stick around / to be sure it is.

3- We can put a man / on the moon but can’t put a / needle in an arm.

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thursday

1- Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. – Benjamin Franklin

2- for some, once the lust
diminishes, it’s the end
of a relationship.

3- I guess there’s a new
party in congress now.
it’s the new Green party,
built from cowardice.

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wednesday

1- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. – Mark Twain

2- a ring through the nose
used to be a metaphor.
now it’s stylish.

3- The family of the officer
killed in the Capitol by a mob
incited by Trump should bring
a civil lawsuit against Trump
for several billion dollars.
And he should also be sued
for damages to the Capitol building!

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tuesday

1- A flea can be taught everything a congressman can. – Mark Twain

2- sometimes I prefer
indistinct to the sharpness
of reality.

3- Don’t let Trump have access
to the security briefings he either
couldn’t read or ignored while president.
He’d just try to find a way to monetize them,
probably selling them to Q-Anon or Putin.

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saturday

1- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. – Richard Bach

2- losing your edge
is as dangerous as a
knife losing its edge.

3- We have learned nothing.
It’s 156 years later and
we approach another Civil War
and it won’t be civil.

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friday

1- The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. – Quentin Crisp

2- sometimes it’s hard to
ignore what I’m pretending
isn’t really there.

3- The math of Trump;
America divided by
divisor Trump
equals – Amerika.

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thursday

1- It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children. – Kingsley Amis

2- when I write, names have
been changed to protect
my innocence.

3- What are the spineless Republican
senators afraid of? If they’d vote to
convict and impeach Trump, he could never
run again and he’d just be the has-been
he has always been. Put country first
for a change and see how good it might feel.

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wednesday

1- Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions. – Saki

2- crows are easy to paint;
they’re just dark shadows.
blue jays are harder.

3- Trump is gone and yet most of
the Republican Senate still
hasn’t found their spines or
remembered their oaths of office.

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monday

1- Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious. – William Feather

2- then, when you think you
have it all, something begins
to slip away.

3- revolution. mob
rule. sedition. treason.
impeachment. Russia? Here?

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sunday

1- Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. – Jonathan Swift

2- before creating
you must first learn how to
think creatively

3- so easy to write when angry.
harder when peace prevails.
be careful what you wish for.

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