Another Perspective
Conflictions
American life imitates the Daytona 500.
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You mean the lobby lawyers' hang out?
"Persactly. The whole country is in a state of conflict over that other conflict, the one in Iraq and the one brewing next door in Iran. Whadda we do? Send Iran to the United Nations, or to the principal's office? Six 'a one, half a dozen of the other.
"But you gotta admit: that Newman guy may not win another race, but he coined the word that fits the fix we're in. And if I knew his address, I'd send him a bottle of vintage you-know-what."
No, Uncle, what?
"Confliction, ought-six."
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