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Deplorable notes

7 January 2017

9:00 AM

7 January 2017

9:00 AM

Which was the most tragic celebrity casualty of 2016? Was it George Michael, the most gifted queer since William Shakespeare? Or Princess Leia, the last teenaged sex symbol not to hail from the Walt Disney Company? Or was it Leonard Cohen, the celebrated founder of that whole ‘Jewish Buddhist’ thing? Over here in the good old US of A, conservatives are still mourning two of our finest ladies: Phyllis Schlafly and Nancy Reagan.

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