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Rebecca’s pregnant pause
My daughter Rebecca is waiting for the pregnant pause to give birth. I tell her it's not happening but she's [...]
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Rebecca’s Electrical College
I first introduced my daughter Rebecca to the idea of the American Electoral College three years ago, when she was [...]
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Damn Yankers
Dear Major League Baseball, I have tried to keep my temper under control, but since the murder of George Freud [...]
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Litte Miss Warming
My daughter Rebecca has turned down CNN and Fox. She will not be their COVID puppet. Not that they asked, [...]
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Pick a flavor, any flavor
SUBJECT: Why you should hire my Rebecca Hi there CNN, I thought you might be interested in covering my story. [...]
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Eaten alive
To celebrate the end of our local lockdown, I took my wife and two kids to dinner at Lupus, our [...]
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Bonus points from The Man
The other day a CNN broadcaster stared at her audience and stopped midsentence: 90,000 Americans, she said with a sigh. [...]
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All fired up
The state of Florida has issued death certificates for a family of four, missing since last week in what medical [...]
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Wash before looking
Based on a name applied to an infectious lung disease caused by a pandemic virus in the year 2020, Covid [...]
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Interview with a (boastful) virus
A veteran particle, or virion, of the corona virus took time out from active duty in northern Italy to chat [...]
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Fix my eye!
If you happen to have named your teddy bear Trump, you knew there had to be a reason.