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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Friday, January 16, 2015

We've Heard This Joke Before


Harold Stassen was the governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943.  But he's best remembered for spending the rest of his life trying to be President.  Stassen sought the Republican nomination for the presidency ten times between 1940 and 1992.  Ten times!  He never succeeded, but his perpetual candidacy became a long-running joke -- fifty years of fodder for stand-up comedians.



















Now, proof that some of the old jokes never die:


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