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For no particular reason, here’s one of my favorite songs from the 80s: the Swimming Pool Q’s performing “Stick in My Hand.” M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I!
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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