Nothing confuses my friend O’Shaughnessy more than our politics.
Just yesterday, he showed up in my window gleefully rubbing his hands and grinning like he’d just managed to get Clancy’s cow to dance the hornpipe. He plopped his tri-corn hat on its usual perch on the fireplace tools and wiggled into the child’s bentwood chair [...]
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Frequently during the vaudeville performance that was the Sonya Sotomayor hearings last week, I heard her inquisitors use the word “mainstream” as in “are your decisions ‘out of the mainstream?” O’Shaughnessey rarely comes around these days but when he has a gripe. This day he sits snorting his tea from a shot-glass and biting angrily into a biscuit. Occasionally, he mutters a “Hmph!” or growls and scowls. He never does this unless he’s expecting me to ask what is bothering him and [...] |
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