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Bill Maher: New Rules for the New Year
New Rules for the New Year
By BILL MAHER
2012: I call it the year in meh. Not the worst weve ever experienced, but nothing particularly great to say about it either. Like being a socialite, but in Tampa.
I am looking forward to 2013, however, because I love the odd-numbered years theyre the ones without congressional elections, Olympics, World Cups or weird extra days tacked onto the calendar by so-called scientists. Odd-numbered years are chill. Theyre the 3 p.m. of years that small sliver of time when lunch is digested and its too early to think about dinner and you stand at least a fighting chance of getting something done.
In that spirit, here are the New Rules for the new year:
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Full article with list if new rules here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/opinion/sunday/new-rules-for-the-new-year.html?_r=1&
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Bill Maher: New Rules for the New Year (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jan 2013
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RKP5637
(67,111 posts)1. I loved this line!!!
"Fellas, if you and your party want to be taken seriously, you dont have to recite the collected works of Stephen Hawking just stop regurgitating the Facebook page of Sarah Palin. "
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)2. Yeah..That's great !
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)3. They eat it (Papa John's)
because Dominos won't deliver to crack houses...love it!
bemildred
(90,061 posts)4. "Let's not cheapen it."
samsingh
(17,599 posts)5. kick
love the sarah palin (aka as idiot) line