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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

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The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.

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Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.

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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'

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Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.

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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

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Jack Abramoff is the world's best lobbyist - for the Federal Penitentiary System.

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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: November 14th, 1947

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