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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.
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.