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Incumbents everywhere are unpopular and losing elections.
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What’s your favorite show-stopping holiday meal to eat/cook?
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Write a short fiction story that is under three hundred words and begins with this sentence: Mitch McConnell reared back and let out a howl…
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Friday thread
Who’s going to play him in the biopic? Is this the one transformation that Jared Leto can’t pull off?
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Is this mailbag "screen time"?
These five weeks between Thanksgiving and the New Year always feel like dead space on the news calendar to me, but it’s about ten percent of the total…
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Thursday thread
A nice soft landing.
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Obama mostly got things right
The effort to craft a "new paradigm" has been a big mistake
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Wednesday Thread
NBA knockout schedule is set! But does anyone really care? Personally, I do like the idea of the tournament cutting into NFL buzz.
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