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Senioritis: The Best of Times

February 26th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Well, I have been promising myself to get away from politics for a minute and deal with another current passion: what is turning out to be the enormous fun I am having in this aging business. And I am curious if others around my age—70 at the moment—are having the fun I am. It feels [...]

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Tags: aging

Bringing Cliches to Life

February 26th, 2008 · 12 Comments

Well, Hillary Clinton is working hard to manifest every unpleasant cliche about women: she is mercurial–proud to be next to Obama one moment and excoriating him the next. She is shrill, shaking her finger like an over-wrought school marm. She appears to suffer from penis envy–inviting him behind the barn in Ohio to have a [...]

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Tags: politics