Woke up smelling the sea today, and thinking about sea shanties. Here’s Paddy & The Rats performing “Drunken Sailor” before what looks like a very happily drunken crowd.

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Woke up smelling the sea today, and thinking about sea shanties. Here’s Paddy & The Rats performing “Drunken Sailor” before what looks like a very happily drunken crowd.
Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.
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