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A blogging friend got Monk interested in the story of Smarty Jones, the little horse that went for the Triple Crown today. Now Monk feels some of the heartbreak of that failure and disappointment. Although Monk prefers that he didn't become emotionally involved, one supposes that such passion enriches life.
In more historic, if less passionate, news, President Reagan dies today at the exhausted age of ninety-three - the man who effected the Right-turn in American culture, ending the dominance of the liberal paradigm of Roosevelt and Johnson, so that we are left today with this full-fledged Culture War raging in America now, the quasi-civil war between the Blues and the Reds.
A blogging friend got Monk interested in the story of Smarty Jones, the little horse that went for the Triple Crown today. Now Monk feels some of the heartbreak of that failure and disappointment. Although Monk prefers that he didn't become emotionally involved, one supposes that such passion enriches life.
In more historic, if less passionate, news, President Reagan dies today at the exhausted age of ninety-three - the man who effected the Right-turn in American culture, ending the dominance of the liberal paradigm of Roosevelt and Johnson, so that we are left today with this full-fledged Culture War raging in America now, the quasi-civil war between the Blues and the Reds.
