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El Alto, et cetera

Hi everyone, Domenic hear from El Alto, hoping you’re shoe box is safely hidden in a remote imaginary summer house with all the lucre you hosed out of Wall Street’s pen.  I got two traffic tickets this year. I promised myself I would save the tickets and make a lover eat them, demanding that she…

(Tunes, name that, you. Please)                                                                                                 Domenic Maltempi                                                                                                                 12-20-2008                                                                     1:   Lying into the umbrella share                                                                                 An incompletist over-endowed everyday                                                                                 Against best wishes                                                                                   Begins to unload all the unexploded blue marble                                                                                                                 Teafins, spilling onto saucers from      unsuccessful oceans                                                                                                 You can glue us back together again…

Across eight presidential campaigns, since Jimmy Carter’s successful run in 1976, I’ve never seen such collective determination by the liberal left to think only positive thoughts about a Democratic candidate. Indeed, some of the present fury may stem from a certain embarrassment at their own political naivety. In fairness to Obama, beyond the vaguely radical…