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Long before the Plague of the Orange Shit Gibbon descended upon us, I came to believe that "you don't need a soul, if you have a spin doctor". The last four years are the ultimate neverending coda to that belief. Thank you, Greg Olear, for all your great posts. And for for sharing work from some other fine authors as well. Much appreciated.

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I got the reference to Shit-Gibbon from this article:

https://slate.com/culture/2017/02/the-origin-of-the-trump-insult-shitgibbon-revealed.html

It has always felt most viscerally satisfying to call him that, though I can probably come up with monikers and references for nearly every letter of the alphabet - sometimes many for a single letter.

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Thank you so much. While my precious baby is now 27, having just started graduate school (psychology) I feel the exact same way. She’s still so young and the world to which she has just emerged as a very productive and wise young adult, is in her hands now. She sees all that we see, and her optimism and faith in the power of goodness and kindness will be her greatest protection. If we can impart those values in our children perhaps there’s a chance that we will be ok.....

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