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Have a medical test later today, so no caffeine! But the blogging must go on. Here’s Steely Dan performing “Do It Again” from a Midnight Special performance in 1973.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.
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