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Thank You Trump, May I Have Another?

Thank You Trump, May I Have Another?

Trump supporters are Kevin Bacon screaming for another merciless paddle whack.

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Aug 22, 2020
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(image: Kevin Bacon in ‘Animal House’)

by Rich Herschlag

One of the highlights of my adolescence occurred in August 1978, in a Manhattan movie theater where a packed room was watching Animal House for the first time. The most thunderous guffaw arrived about a half hour into the movie during initiation of pledges at the pompous, WASPy Omega fraternity. Aft…

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