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making sure it goes on

The title is stolen from the late Richard Hugo’s collected poems. I’ve loved it for many years. Maybe I should write something about Hugo, here—but whatever, it’s time for something new. So I’ll remember that The Hon. Russ Carnahan was in town last week and walked into a restaurant where a number of us were [...]

and as if Tina Fey weren’t enough for your average Monday,

Garrison Keillor has a wonderful Salon column today about how the Republicans are running against themselves. I especially like this couple of paragraphs, in light of all the sneering and hand-wringing about elitism I’ve encountered lately. . . . [A] former mayor of a town of 7,000 who hired a lobbyist to get $26 million [...]

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