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by Clare Briggs · September 26, 2022

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Clare Briggs

Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.

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CJColucci in reply to Jaybird
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on Open Mic for the week of 9/18/2023Depends. If you have nothing better to do with your time, it's your time. Just don't expect much.
Jaybird in reply to CJColucci
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on Open Mic for the week of 9/18/2023Do you think it's a silly question to ask someone?
Jaybird in reply to Chip Daniels
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on Open Mic for the week of 9/18/2023I’m highly politically attuned so I understand completely why you have such scorn for the people who put up th…
Chip Daniels in reply to Jaybird
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on Open Mic for the week of 9/18/2023I was on a liberal blog once and someone made a sneering reference to a minivan with those stick figures of a…
CJColucci in reply to Russell Michaels
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on Striking a Chord: “Rich Men North of Richmond”Take it up with Shelley, who, these days, would probably replace poets with songwriters as the "unacknowledged…
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on Striking a Chord: “Rich Men North of Richmond”He is not an elected official. When he recorded the song, he was a complete nobody. Just because he’s now a ch…
Chip Daniels in reply to Russell Michaels
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on Striking a Chord: “Rich Men North of Richmond”He is setting himself up to be the judge of who is worthy of respect and who is not, not too dissimilar to May…
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on The Sky Isn’t FallingI think we should be pretty hesitant to totally discount historical analogy. Once shots are fired it's impossi…

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