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Today is Kathleen’s birthday and I am reminded once more of how incredibly fortunate I am that she is in my life.

First of all, there’s the obvious: if she were not here, I’d be dead. The only reason I went to the hospital when I was stroking out was because she insisted I go. If it had happened at home, with me on my own, I’d have died on the living room couch certain that I was simply feeling tired.

Second, she takes care of me on a daily basis, doing everything from preparing meals to making sure I have my barrage of pills.

Third, she is a wonderful mom to our daughter.

Fourth, and most important, she is my best friend, my best advisor, my best everything. If she were not in my life, I wouldn’t have one.

Thank you for being with me.

PAD

Many, many years ago, I was in Las Vegas with my then-wife Myra, and we went to see a double bill of Joan Rivers and Robert Goulet. Rivers came on first. Most comics in Vegas did a normal set of about twenty minutes. Not Rivers. She was on for well over an hour. She was hysterical every minute, but part of me wondered why she was doing such an abnormally long time on stage.

We figured it out when Goulet came on.

He was drunk. Rivers had been out on stage for so long because backstage they must have been trying to sober Goulet up. Didn’t work. He staggered his way through three songs, forgot the lyrics to “If Ever I Would Leave You,” and picked a fight with a guy in the audience before finally staggering off stage. So he was a disaster. But Rivers was amazing.

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Finally back home after being on the road for a week and a half.

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There’s nothing I can say that can compare to the mourning expressed by those who knew him. Me, I was simply an audience member watching his ascent with everyone else, marveling at his wit and talent.

What concerns me is the notion that some religious right fanatics are going to declare that he’s burning in Hëll because he killed himself and try to picket his funeral.

On behalf of America, may I ask all you idiots to, for once, shut the hëll up.

PAD

According to an article here, dictionaries are now listing “literally” as meaning the same thing as “figuratively” because of its common usage.

So let me understand this: There’s no point in trying to settle wagers anymore over what words mean by consulting the dictionary, because the dictionary is going to list meanings even if they’re wrong.

I’m sorry, I thought that dictionaries were supposed to be bastions of correct word usage, not simply recordings of things that people are too ignorant to use correctly.

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When he was voted into office, tons of people encouraged Obama to level war crime charges against Bush and Cheney.

And it would have been totally legitimate. They demonstrably lied to everyone in order to wage war.

But Obama said no. He didn’t feel that he should be prosecuting his predecessor.

So now the GOP is readying plans to impeach Obama. For issuing fewer executive orders than his predecessors.

Jesus Christ. Remember that guy in “Guardians of the Galaxy” who says, “What a bunch of a-holes?” He’s talking about the GOP.

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Who is Don Mirscher? The executive producer of the Emmys, who apparently took exception to another year of criticism for the egregious omissions of this years nominations. No “best series” for “The Good Wife.” No “best actor” for James Spader. Most shockingly, no best actress for Tatiana Maslany.

What was his excuse?

““The Emmys are not a popular choice award. The Emmys are an industry award. The Emmys are determined by the men and women who create television. That’s why for those of us who are lucky enough to win an Emmy, it means a lot because it’s our competitors and our peers that have given that to us. I think the way it’s set up and the way it’s going to work again this year is that the nominations came from people in the industry who make the product. How many people watch a particular product I don’t think is as important as the quality of the product, and that’s been reflected in the nominations that you’ve seen four days ago.”

Here’s why this excuse is idiotic.

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