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And to get even more parish-pump than that, Leonard Stern also recently announced that he was selling the Village Voice , my very first employer, as you of course know since I got the job owing to your recommendation when I had no experience at all, because you were tired of hearing me blather on, much as I am doing now, but more crankily, as we sat in bars back when we met in the go-go '80s.
Some people rage against government taxes, others resent the old people who are sucking dry our Social Security safety net even as they crankily vote down local school budgets.