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It's Gall In a Day's Work
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Are We Deaf, Blind, and ... Dumb?
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Too-Even Stephen
There’s no good way to say this right now, but there’s really no other time to say it, so I’ll just say it bad. Stephen Colbert was a disappointing host of The Late Show. He was mediocre compared to expectations, and mediocre relative to hi...
They Were Playing Different Games
Chess v. tiddledywinks. via AI
What has become apparent after Donald Trump returned from Beijing is that the American president got outplayed by the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping. If I may make an inexcusable additional metaphor, Xi was set t...
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