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If it’s Tuesday, We Must be Cranky

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” 1984, George Orwell I don’t have the rule book handy, so I’m not sure if in 2020 it’s the left or the right who gets to quote Orwell. Trouble is, just too much of what he wrote …

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Working It

If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming and crawling about from place to place can do no good. Abraham Lincoln in a letter to John D. Johnston, November 4, 1851. …

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