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It's kind of weird that "You didn't think it would be that easy, did you?" is a well-worn turn of phrase. I mean, it way predates "Kill Bill", right (and that "You know, I kind of did" response) and that's why they used it? Do other languages have it? It kind of packs a lot of murphy's law into it.

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Mom sent me Mr. Rogers Plays the Tuba:

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Kottke pointed out how great Dale Hansen's take on Trump's response to the NFL protestors is:

Donald Trump has said he supports a peaceful protest because it's an American's right... But not this protest, and there's the problem: The opinion that any protest you don't agree with is a protest that should be stopped.

Martin Luther King should have marched across a different bridge. Young, black Americans should have gone to a different college and found a different lunch counter. And college kids in the 60's had no right to protest an immoral war.

I served in the military during the Vietnam War... and my foot hurt, too. But I served anyway.

My best friend in high school was killed in Vietnam. Carroll Meir will be 18 years old forever. And he did not die so that you can decide who is a patriot and who loves America more.

The young, black athletes are not disrespecting America or the military by taking a knee during the anthem. They are respecting the best thing about America. It's a dog whistle to the racists among us to say otherwise.

They, and all of us, should protest how black Americans are treated in this country. And if you don't think white privilege is a fact, you don't understand America.