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Please let AOC run for President! It would only be a cash grab anyway, and it would provide much needed entertainment.

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Jim, You're right, Jon Stewart is wrong. Goblins indeed have been around since medieval times. What I detest about Stewart's rant is that it is typical: "Look, I'm offended. Destroy whatever you created!" His sense of offense isn't sincere; and were he to win out, we'd be poorer for Harry Potter not existing. This plays out continually and it's tiresome.

As for Beavis and Butthead, they came and went without my seeing them. You go have fun, though.

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Re: Harry Potter I read it before my children did (by way of review and also because reading is fun) while JK Rowling was still writing them. They are an engaging, Junior Fiction fantasy series. They're decent coming of age stories where in the most compelling parts of the stories happen to everyone but the three main characters.

AOC is the John Stewart of candidates. Occasionally correct for the wrong reasons, unaccountably popular and listened to, middling attractive, and concerned with their own celebrity. The voice of "the people", if the people mean those who think like them. Probably not given to deep introspection because that can be uncomfortable, uses heritage like a shield.

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Okay, but that would just make Beavis and Butthead the same age as Hank Hill and his cohort.

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At least now we know that AOC writes her own tweets.

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Good thing this morning: I finished my coffee before I read your usual witty stuff. (Stuff being used because I couldn’t think of a better word, that’s your department). I hate cleaning up spewed coffee while reading.

Bad thing this morning: only two days left this week of the best read on the web.

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About Rowling... there's an obvious missing factor in the new criticisms. She wrote the books; she didn't direct the movies. The appearances of the greedy bankers were created by the movie makers. The words she wrote for the book didn't make them look or seem like caricatures of Jews. That was the movie-makers' doing.

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