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Friday, October 24, 2008

End of Week Hodgepodge


Deep stuff there...
No matter who wins this election, he will be swept into office on a sea of goodwill, by a citizenry grown weary of our current national embarrassment.

For those with a spare $10,000, might I suggest the following for a terrific holiday gift to a special someone:

Please do not send this to Alan Greenspan, Henry Paulson, Phil Gramm or the University of Chicago Department of Economics. And because it is Friday, may we offer the following examples of possible weekend behaviors to be embraced or avoided, as performed by the Woodspider:

You gotta love the Crack Woodspider. Then there is this grainy golden oldie from the genius Ray Davies/Kinks, "Dead End Street", a song about growing up impoverished in post-WW2 England:



That song and its video serves to remind just how long it took for Great Britain to get on its feet following The Great Depression and World War 2. Things didn't become anywhere close to prosperous there until the early 1960s!

And because we are in World Series and Halloween season, the Onion offers the following mash-up:

And here's the Quote for the Day:

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." --
George Bernard Shaw

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