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I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

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Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.

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You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

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I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

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Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

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I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

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Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: July 18th, 1937

Died: February 20th, 2005

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