"Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Th...
If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
~ Christopher Hitchens ~
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If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
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