Heroes And Villains No. 42--> Mickey Hart & Sirimavo Bandaranaike

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Heroes And Villains No. 41--> Brent Mydland & Mohammed Reza Pahlavi a/k/a "The Shah Of Iran"

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Heroes And Villains No. 40--> Larry Rivers & Lucrezia Borgia (a/k/a The Duchess of Ferrara), Daughter of Heroes And Villains No. 20, Pope Alexander VI

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Heroes And Villains No. 39--> William Shakespeare & Queen Ranavalona I Of Madagascar

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Heroes And Villains No. 38--> Eleanor Roosevelt & Lee Harvey Oswald

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Heroes And Villains No. 37--> Bob Weir & Albert Anastasia a/k/a "The Mad Hatter" and Co-director of Murder, Inc.

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Heroes And Villains No. 36--> David Duke & Virginia Woolf

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Heroes And Villains No. 35--> Doris Lessing & Typhoid Mary (a/k/a Mary Mallon)

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My Political Career (a/k/a "The "Observer")

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My political career lasted about ten days. I had just graduated from high school. I worked as a semi-paid crisis counselor on the hotline at The Sixth Chamber (I worked there two years, for $50 a week). Although I was 17 when I filed for the City Council, I would have been 18 well before the election.

The city clerk didn't much cotton to a 17 year old from that hippie crisis clinic running for the council (and becoming one of her bosses). She refused to accept my filing papers. I appealed her decision to the Attorney General. The Washington State A.G. at the time was Republican Slade Gorton, who went on to become a U.S. Senator (before being edged out by Maria Cantwell) and 9/11 commission member. Yes, I was booted by Skeletor before he was Skeletor.

I was unable to mount a court challenge to Slade's decision (lack of $$$).   So I became an "Observer." Six months later, I ran for a seat on the school board (running against my father-in-law to be's law partner, who never let me forget I challenged him). I lost.

Other than being a faithful voter, and occasional delegate to state conventions, I've been an observer and serious student of politics ever since.

A friend has seriously considered running for national office, and if he does, I will join up in a heartbeat. He is a Republican. If you don't truly love politics you probably can't concieve how I could work for the "enemy." It's not like they would make a yellow-dog Democrat with intemperate views the campaign manager, after all. Whatever I end up doing on the campaign, I'll be playing hardball. And we will win.
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Heroes And Villains No. 34--> Mata Hari & Dr. William Carlos Williams

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5ives.com

Merlin Mann has a sweet web site with many lists of five. I like lists. Merlin has some great ones. Click on the title to link to Merlin Mann. A few samples:

Five actors I prefer not to visualize having intercourse
Broderick Crawford
Rondo Hatton
Richard Dawson
Paul Lynde
Curly Joe DeRita

Five people with whom to never start a conversation on MUNI
Needy-looking guy in kilt
Fat man with enormous parrot on his shoulder
Chinese lady quietly trimming her toenails
Stinky guy talking animatedly to fat guy’s parrot
Smirky guy taking numerous phonecam pictures of stinky guy, fat guy, and parrot

Five congressional terms that sound kind of dirty
Minority Whip
discretionary appropriations
filibustering
discharge petition
franking privileges

Five total scams in high school
class rings
cap and gown fees
Who’s Who Among American High School Students
prom
assemblies featuring christian rock bands

Five things it’s probably better not to do when you’re kind of drunk
buy domain names
hire an attorney
do lots of file management from the command line
sort out your finances
telephone people you remember fondly from elementary school

Five things it would probably be disingenuous for me to rap about
the streets
my bitches
thug life
popping a cap in your ass
my milkshake
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Heroes And Villains No. 33--> Congresswoman Bella Abzug & Pope Urban VI

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