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Other issues: various Gore campaign blunders and the Reform Party leadership convention (really just another excuse to interview Minnesota Gov.
This suspicion may be a delusion or a self-delusion, but it nevertheless provides an excuse to vote against the resolution.
But risking holiday sentimentality (with the ready-made excuse that it's just the chestnut stuffing talking), I'd like to mention some things I'm thankful for, like Tim Carvell's two (!) responses involving pushing people or poultry out of airplanes; Jennifer Miller's two (!) bits of self-revelation about her dark and ferocious inner life and apartment; Larry Amaros' determination that the Olsen twins wander parched and frightened, not merely in the Serengeti but during the dry season.
The mass-circulation Sun , now reportedly dumping its famous Page-3 bare-breasted pinups at the request of Rupert Murdoch's new Chinese wife, used the small French farmers' protest at Calais as the excuse for an attack on Prime Minister Tony Blair for his pro-Europeanism.
Excuse Chatterbox for a second ...