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Yolanda D.'s avatar

Thank you, thank you, Charles!

Charles Bastille's avatar

Thank YOU for reading 😊

Nushen Baihe's avatar

Thank you for that recap, it’s easy to forget how flawed people are when history puts them in tinsel lights. It’s also depressing to see how many earlier leaders weren’t worthy of the mantle they carried. It isn’t much wonder then how we remember a handful of names in this list as truly having left a positive impact on humanity.

Charles Bastille's avatar

Thanks. Well, we are all flawed, so it's sort of all relative, I guess. Even the best of them had their quirks and imperfections. And then some were... 🤮

Kay-El's avatar

“President” Error deserves what little mention you gave him. Thank you.

Charles Bastille's avatar

You're welcome 😁

Eddie Spaghetti's avatar

Lotsa fun herein, great Sat. live english skit, krugman joke, lack of Republican presidential functional hippocampi🤣🤣,

Katharine Valentino's avatar

To celebrate Presidents' Day, I was going to write about the worst president. But I didn't, and anyway, it may have been Andrew Jackson instead of ... Error. Thanks for the lineup, Charles.

Charles Bastille's avatar

I'm hoping he's wiped away from the history books. I know it's a big ask, but they should do it anyway.

Susan Niemann's avatar

I loved ALLLL OF THIS. So..... fun fact. I ran my agency in Quincy, Illinois and worked with people who were poisoned by Michael Swango! They lived to tell the tale.The book by James B Stewart 'Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder' is a must read. James B. Stewart (who its now 74 years old) is from Quincy and I bought television advertising from his father Ben, who worked at WGEM-TV, the NBC affiliate.

Had I given birth to a boy, I would have named him Thurlow Weed.

"Dumber than a dead ox." 😂😂😂

"Hint, hint" 👏👏👏👏👏

"Error, error" 💀💀💀💀

Maybe one of your best columns.

Charles Bastille's avatar

Oh em gee on your Quincy experiences. Yikes!! I'm glad you never went to his hospital in those years. The New Yorker did a piece on him. It might have been an excerpt from the book.

Thanks for the kind words. :-)