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- Republicans are like: Zzzzzzzzz.
Rooting through old files, I came across a Mike Royko column from August 13, 1992, that was headlined: “GOP sets its sights on Hillary Clinton.”
It’s already started, observed Royko. “I’ve heard right-wingers describe her as a Nazi, a pinko, a baby-snatcher, and a vicious, ambitious, grasping man-hater. At least they give her credit for versatility.”
Critical thinking on grudges is close to unanimous. “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs,” wrote Charlotte Bronte. Wrote Christopher Hitchens: “Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday’s.” Bette Midler is said to have remarked, “How many times can you wake up in the middle of the night gnashing your teeth? It’s so boring. Give it up!”
