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Dartboard realizes some Republicans worship the Gipper as though he were a golden god, but alas, the man is a mortal??and he wasn’t a particularly good president, either. For astronomically inflating the deficit and absentmindedly posing for photo ops while the “evil empire” went under on the other side of the planet, Reagan’s moniker has already been slapped on an aircraft carrier, a federal building—hell! even our nation’s capital has an airport in his name...
Columnists who write for this esteemed page are only human. Not to be confused with humane, which describes our demeanor, or inhuman, which describes our prose. Human here means mortal??that is, we columnists eventually grow old with time. As the years pass, our prose starts to stumble and our foresight begins to dim. Once-sharp witticisms gradually resemble the oft-repeated yarns that put small children to sleep. Indeed, after only a few short years of writing, people refer to us as seniors. The term is fitting to both our age and our attitude. Like most senior...
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