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Dear Reader (especially Sean Spicer, who must be the happiest man in the world right now),

I think it was President Eisenhower's press secretary, James Hagerty, who told White House chief of staff Sherman Adams, "I'm going to gouge out your eyeballs with my car keys and skull f*** you."

No, no, that didn't happen. Nor did the vastly cruder scene from the Millard Fillmore administration that I was going to go with instead. It involved the postmaster general, a goat, a White House steward, three farmer's daughters, and an oak barrel full of axle grease.

I bring this up to illustrate that crude language does not offend me, in the appropriate context. If I'm playing poker, hanging out in my cigar shop (as I am right now), or sitting in a van pulling ...

July 28 2017

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