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Mike Ethen
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Peace on Earth. Ceasefire now! Golden Rule near-absolutist. Minneapolis. Musicology PhD. Navy veteran…ask me about the time I was involved in the largest maritime cocaine seizure in history.
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Barthes was right, "the author" has died and now anything uttered is subject to interpretation. But the pendulum has swung completely the other way, with "definitive" meaning intended by the author replaced with "definitive" meaning received by the reader.

"Cease fire now!" --You're anti-semitic.
My dentist said don’t chew on ice, abolish it.
Senate candidate’s offensive tattoo is actually an aerial view of experimental rotary wing aircraft.
How much are the Toronto Blue Jays worth?
We may never know...
bent and mangled...in the wrong direction? sheesh.
right! hadn't thought of it in years, now I might have to re-watch soon.
such a beautiful movie; Greenaway is a fabulous colorist.
if it goes 4 years, this administration is about 19% over with.
right. also Shakespeare.
Spare a thought for long-suffering librarians like Barbara here.
Co-equal branches of government my tuchus.
"don't worry about the west bank"
- POTUS, apparently
whether you're a small piece of paper or an upper-class urban male, it's a tough century to be named chad.
a nice, round 1,750 days since...
OMG, I don't need it, I don't want it, and you cheated me out of it is brilliant. love this whole album.
Why?
Hillary Clinton to host 'unscripted' conversation at Target Center
bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
so what's your *now* solution?
meanwhile, voting for more Trump nominees...
you're a collaborator in all this
Sure, buddy...you're "former antifa"
kid rock has entered the chat