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Here’s the 80s Canadian band Doug & the Slugs with their fine tribute to the struggles of life, “Day by Day:”
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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