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Retirement Plan for Stranger Staff and Slog Writers

Chicago FanDecember 5, 2013 9:13 amJune 3, 2022 2:16 am

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Gotta love the Dutch, they’re so practical about things. Want to get alcoholics off the street and out of the parks? Give them jobs that pay partly with beer.

Practical solutions without moralizing. We might want to try that in this country sometime. But of course, our founding Puritans, whose descendents are still fucking this country up, fled the Netherlands . . . . so Dutch ideas are probably unAmerican. . .

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