John Siegmund

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Thread. The 10 best novels I've read (note - there are plenty of great novels I haven't yet read. Thank God - otherwise the rest of my life would be extremely bleak). Note - I avoid repeating authors in the list, although I do count series as a single work.

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@smilebehappyOO1 I had it this summer. Took 3 months to go away. Did nothing but avoid certain shoes and walking barefoot.

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@PatrickSvitek Renacci has been bitter ever since his failure of a Senate race. Thinks GOP should have funded him while he was drafted in because he was supposed to be able to self fund.

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@Magister_Mondo @YahooSports Awful. But they beat IU on the road with Sayin playing terribly and without RB2, so there’s still hope for the season.

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@eugyppius1 Honestly, I don’t understand the French riots and I don’t want to spend the time to try to understand them. What I’m interested in is if there still exists a distinctive Hanoverian (conservative) political tradition or whether it is gone, flattened.

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@Carty1111 @VaticanReportIt Italian version of AP (press association).

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@IterIntellectus When I moved to southern Italy in 1989 (I am old!), it was basically 100% ethnic Italians. Completely different when I go back now - multi ethnic, multi racial society.

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@RattlerGator @gatorsszn Kind of difficult to grok that diatribe. Is he saying that Southwestern Louisiana has more history and an easier path to present day success than the Gators? I mean, I get that he’s a Louisiana homer and likes to pump up their directional schools, but that seems a stretch.

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@RattlerGator It’s great to be able to look forward to waking up and watching the early morning replay of SEC Tonight.

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@BecauseCulture Lived in Italy for many years. Its not awful, but much prefer the American healthcare system. If I had no money to pay the out of pocket costs, I’d probably prefer Italy.

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@JacobsFieldRBW Should be rooting for Texas to take 2 of 3 and Houston to lose all 3 of their games, I think.

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@SteveSkojec When I was 10, the Giants (not my fave team) traded Fran Tarkenton to the Vikings.

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@CMReport My first thought is that the Chinese would never go along with a slowdown. My second thought is that it would certainly be in their interest to have American experts pushing for one.

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@AndyStaples Worked for me. Got to root for Rod Woodson, Lomas Brown, and Ironhead Heyward.

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@eugyppius1 Missed a chance to pivot to career as Milli Vanilli cover band lead.

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@Heminator Lawrence Welk?

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@eugyppius1 We once stayed at a friend’s apartment in Paris and were solemnly told not to flush the toilet after 9pm. I’m with you on morning showers. Up at 6am, very leisurely coffee. Workout, shower, roll into the office about 10:30am.

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@jdflynn Used to love to go to Sunday Mass at the ICKSP apostolate and then drive a few miles to watch a Sunday afternoon White Sox game. Thanks for banning that, Cupich!

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@JayChex @glimpseofus Same thing happened to my cousin. Lost his VP job in his mid ‘40s during corporate merger. Emptied 401k to start a business which failed. Now working menial job in his mid ‘60s with no retirement in sight.

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@eugyppius1 It’s the Global Warming, isn’t it?

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@eugyppius1 @Lady_Astor Just a minute ago, at the Italian beach house, old Italian broad walks by neighboring empty villa, spends 5 minutes breaking a branch full of flowers off a plant inside the villa gates.