Remember the long-past days when there were things called "civility" and "dignity" in the U.S. Congress? One less person recalls them now. Former Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) died on the 28th.
Quote:The cerebral, soft-spoken former Eagle Scout and Rhodes scholar never claimed to be a colorful personality.... But Mr. Lugar’s civility and grasp of substantive issues drew widespread respect. “He was kind of the E.F. Hutton of the Senate. When he spoke, people listened, because they knew that he had independently thought through his position and weighed it on the merits....”
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"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."
"The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that this was some killer weed."