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Manny Goldstein: Let us Resolve, this year.
It's finally getting cold here in Boston, and I noticed while driving today that the joints in our "new" car (104,000 miles) are starting to stiffen and creak in the cold. "@#$%, one more thing to deal with."
I flipped on the radio and listened to story about a fellow who'd trained as a musician at New York City's elite Julliard school, but schizophrenia had taken a big bite of his ability to perceive and to reason, and the fellow had ended up homeless. On the streets, with demons screeching in his head.
That's how we love our fellow humans in this country. As it says in Matthew Reagan 25:36, "I was sick and you looked after me threw me into the street where lazy people like me belong, OK, OK, let me go, I'll get the @#$% away from your limo"
For decades we've been told by a savage Republican establishment that developing schizophrenia, like being born into poverty, is simply a poor life choice -- if these people would only get off their lazy asses and start a successful company that goes public, they'd be livin' large instead of choosing to freeze and die in the streets. The Third Way grifters who've led our Democratic Party during that time have been far more pragmatic: "Give bankers whatever they want, give the Clintons a commission on the deal, and then magic will happen to end the savagery, just keep those filthy unfortunates the @#$% away from my limo while we're waiting for the magic to happen, OK?" But their magic never happens, because it's bull@#$%, of course. They're grifters, and grifters spin yarns and grab money.
I flipped on the radio and listened to story about a fellow who'd trained as a musician at New York City's elite Julliard school, but schizophrenia had taken a big bite of his ability to perceive and to reason, and the fellow had ended up homeless. On the streets, with demons screeching in his head.
That's how we love our fellow humans in this country. As it says in Matthew Reagan 25:36, "I was sick and you looked after me threw me into the street where lazy people like me belong, OK, OK, let me go, I'll get the @#$% away from your limo"
For decades we've been told by a savage Republican establishment that developing schizophrenia, like being born into poverty, is simply a poor life choice -- if these people would only get off their lazy asses and start a successful company that goes public, they'd be livin' large instead of choosing to freeze and die in the streets. The Third Way grifters who've led our Democratic Party during that time have been far more pragmatic: "Give bankers whatever they want, give the Clintons a commission on the deal, and then magic will happen to end the savagery, just keep those filthy unfortunates the @#$% away from my limo while we're waiting for the magic to happen, OK?" But their magic never happens, because it's bull@#$%, of course. They're grifters, and grifters spin yarns and grab money.
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He's an "important American writer" and this was his second novel. College, Football, Global Thermonuclear Warfare, a beautiful girl using her extra weight as a shield, the visual poetry of college students engaging in imaginary gunfights and doing slow, graceful, unique, falls to their death.
One of those kinds of novels. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_Zone
https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/16/lifetimes/del-r-endzone.html
I'm sorry for your difficulties and rejoice that you at least have a roof over your head.
Big time
Well done, Manny! 
Oh and rec 
You're a little evil 
I just love the way you think
You tell it like it is.
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