Josh<\/a> got his mom’s brains. Whoever she is.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’m no knee-jerk fan of either major party, so the ugliness of this election season has triggered one of my depressions. For me, these are characterized by what I call “wheels within wheels” phases, in which the world seems to reduce to the meshing of an impossibly complicated set of gears. I get stuck probing … <\/p>\n
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