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Daily Archives: August 6th, 2007

Visiting Springfield

Monday, August 6, 2007

Neither we nor our visitors here in Vermont had seen the Simpsons Movie, and we all agreed that today, which started out rainy, would be the perfect day to see the movie in Springfield, Vermont, where it received its world premiere. We took in the matinee at the bargain price of $5.00 each. Here’s proof, […]

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We’re (not) number one!

Monday, August 6, 2007

Via the Seminal, we learn that Russia ranks 102nd of 167 countries in the scale of democracy, at least according to the Economist. I neither endorse nor quarrel with the views of the Seminal writer. My immediate reaction was: Where stands the cradle of democracy, the land of the new birth of freedom, the country […]

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