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Conoravirus And The Pandemic Of Nincompoopery

Conoravirus And The Pandemic Of Nincompoopery

Those of us who know better already get it, and those of us who don’t get it will probably end up on a ventilator, coughing up blood.

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Mar 26, 2020
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by Bob Cesca

WASHINGTON, DC -- I’m old enough to remember when the movie “Dumb & Dumber” came out and a national debate was launched around the question of whether the “dumbing down of America” was underway, with Hollywood comedies leading our alleged descent into stupidity. 

In hindsight, it was never about Jim Carrey’s movies in the 1990s. The reason we…

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