The Dueling Critics

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[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is SO confusing.

The wall's already built?

Or do you still need $5B for the wall?

Is Mexico still paying for it?

Oh, so they'll pay LATER, you say?

But you're building it anyway, even if you don't get $5B?

So wait...why is the government shut down?

dammit!

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@QueenMab87 Gargle with hydrogen peroxide. It tastes bad and fizzes against your throat but relieves pain rapidly.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Four teen boys were playing with a loaded handgun in Georgia yesterday when one of them unintentionally shot one and killed his friend. The teen then called 911 and shot and killed himself before they arrived.

Lock up your goddamned guns.

https://t.co/bawIJ1x2bQ

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@Nicole_Cliffe I take Lexapro and Welbutrin for depression. The combo has worked for several years (knock wood) after several others stopped working in months. I have no shame—I refer to these as “my crazy pills.”

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@belungerer @ryanaboyd Portnoy’s Complaint is a piece of crap. Actually, that holds for pretty much all of Roth. Likewise Updike’s novels (especially Rabbits—the Maples short stories are excellent). And likewise Bellow. I’m just not as interested in these guys’ penes as they are—few people could be.

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@CinaedhVik @ryanaboyd Read the Nine Stories! One is awful but the other 8 are outstanding—nothing like Catcher...

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@MackenzieLitt13 @ryanaboyd And Plath’s poetry is mostly crap, too. Annoyingly, Ted Hughes’ poems are quite good.

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@wokeupafraud @ryanaboyd Hawthorne short stories are good, though, and creepy—the one about the guy who marries a woman with a birthmark and then kills her with his efforts to eradicate it is amazing.

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@PogieJoe @_Mearmaid_ @ryanaboyd And I reread the Anne of Green Gables books regularly. They shaped my world view at age 12? and remain delightful to me.

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@thatwildlifedvm @ryanaboyd But Salinger’s Nine Stories and Seymour: An Introduction are brilliant.

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@haroldpollack As always, proud to know anyone as smart as you—which is to say, you!

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@MarkARKleiman Don Quixote, yes, pointless and bad; I’ll defend Moby Dick.

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@BillOReilly You are a disgraceful excuse for a human being.

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@JeffMerkley @AlanNeff @realDonaldTrump Ya think?

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@playbill @CTGLA So this means the original Chicago cast is going with the play to LA. That might be more interesting/newsworthy than a list of names. Is it tagged as a Steppenwolf production?

[Dan McClintock @AKAMaclin]

@PhilipRocco *No major policy change gets out alive unless it finds a way to redistribute income upward.* Beautifully worded! This is where we are at now. Redistribution of wealth already happened--it went up not out.

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@shaunking @BetoORourke I hope Beto ORourke defeats Cornyn in 2020. Then we can talk about the White House. Meanwhile we have Klobuchar, Gillebrand, Warren, Harris and a few boys with more experience than handsome well-spoken Beto. If we insist on someone who didn’t get elected, try Stacey Abrams.

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@AlanNeff Thank you, Deep Throat/Hal Holbrooke!