Dowbrigade

I was sprayed by a skunk.

I tripped over my dog
and was knocked unconscious.

My bus broke down and was held up by robbers.

I
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While we admit we have learned very few things during our
half-century on this planet one of them is that as weird as we feel
sometimes, we are a veritable paragon of moderation and mental health
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Will Americans allow their military and security services
to practice torture? If you asked a mythical representative sampling
of Americans "Should police and national security agencies be allowed
to use torture?" we are [...]

Helping at times, and watching helpless at others,
as our 20-year-old son searches for his first "real" job, his previous
renumerative resume consisting exclusively of post-snowstorm shoveling
duty and very occasional market research study [...]