“You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.”
  –Phil Gramm

• Somebody else farted in gym class.
• Those weren’t your grandparents wearing blue vests at Wal-Mart.
• When the levees failed in New Orleans, the federal government jumped to the city’s aid, mitigating what could have been an enduring major catastrophe.
• Mark David Chapman missed.
• Hinckley didn’t.
• The lawyer fired back.
• George Lucas was devoured by a pack of wild hyenas before he could begin production of Episode I.
• “Gentlemen, we can’t spy on our own citizens. That would be wrong.”
• Arrested Development begins its sixth season this fall.
• Al Gore won in 2000, followed by eight years of peace and prosperity.

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