SleepinJeezus

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• Location Junction of Principles and Opinions, somewhere in Wisconsin
• Party Democrat
• Politics Progressive Liberal - Clarence Darrow; Bob LaFollette; Saul Alinsky; FDR New Deal; Henry Wallace; James Groppi; Catonsville 9; Harold Washington; Tip O'Neill; Ann Richards; Studs Terkel; Molly Ivins; Mahatma Ghandi; Mother Jones

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• Favorite Blogs www.fightingbob.com
• Favorite Books The Jungle - Sinclair; Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck; Reveille for Radicals - Alinsky; Darrow for the Defense - Stone; Trout Fishing in America / Revenge of the Lawn - Brautigan;
• Favorite Quotes

  "Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?" - Old Irish saying

  "Just because that Union Driver is making more money than you doesn't necessarily mean he's overpaid." - My Father, a tavernkeeper, responding to a customer's complaint about a fellow tradesman.

  We Can Be Together - Jefferson Airplane

  Misery's the river of the world - everybody row! Tom Waits

  "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." Jonathan Swift

Bio

I slept with the lions

and Marilyn Monroe

had breakfast in the eye

of a hurricane

fought Rocky Marciano,

played Minnesota Fats

burned hundred-dollar bills,

I've eaten Mulligan stew

got drunk with Louis Armstrong

what's that old song?

I taught Mickey Mantle

everything that he knows