“And finally through humility, we may be able to regain thesense of the absurdity of man…..” quoteth Professor Pierre, Columbia University, 1952 at the height of Senator Joe McCarthy’s outrage, weeding out Commie sympathizers in our land.
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Fibber McGee and Molly, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Benny Mary Livi9ngston, Fred Allen and Portland…Lamont Cranston (“The Shadow” and ”Margo”) Eddie Cantor and Ida, Blondie and Dagwood, Jimmy Durante “Good night,…”Mrs.Calabash”….
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One wonders whether or not our founding fathers, would have been able to recognize our Republic, no less the original 13 colonies.
Isn’t it bad enough the law of the land is but a fiction in light of gun tyranny, ,the gun shows and the failure to demand back up checks, and the 5-4 decision at the Court, giving same sex couples the right to cohabit, shaking up the right to procreate and raise a family of quality human beings, setting an example for the generations to come.
Yet saying that our own ladies, wives, mothers, grandmothers…….Gracie Allen Mary Livingston, Portland Hoffa, Missus Calabash, Ida, Molly are like the tea barrels thrown off the ship holds, docked in Boston Harbor.
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A Revolution in our time.. And who among us is prepared to confront it. Not the 17 campaigners for General George Washington’s highest office in the land.
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And a once handsome Coney Island 10 billion dollar man,itching for the General’s legacy, cradling cyberspace smoke and shadows by admonishing a Vietnam prisoner of war who’s playing out his own legacy in his seat, the United States Senate.
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Civility like Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the wind”? Earl Carol’s “Vanities” playing out.
Our cosmos and solar system is but a stage…..
“Twinkle twinkle little star”
July 22, 2015 The City that nwever sleeps.
