The Attention of Fools

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Losing Friends Over Cultural Lines in the Sand

Losing Friends Over Cultural Lines in the Sand

when you lose your temper, you lose everything else as well

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Don Hall
Nov 23, 2021
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I arrived in Las Vegas, my new home, a fully vetted Utopian. I lived in the progressive bubble of Chicago (remarkably an urban blue area sequestered in a fully red state) for thirty years. I dated for four years a woman committed thoroughly to Marxist dogma (despite her love for $500 leather boots and expensive restaurants). Her godfather (and loosely d…

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