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1 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Tonight's installment of the continuing series "Ravages of Old Age."
One of the simple joys I have is laying on the hammock on my front porch and reading. Baltimore being Baltimore, there are actually relatively few days when the weather will permit me to indulge. Tonight was one of those nights.

Disaster struck.
The three fingers on my left hand cramped. While I am not well-versed in orthopedics (To paraphrase Dr. McCoy: "Dammit Jim, I'm a lawyer, not a doctor."),
I'm pretty certain that the cause was nerve compression either in my shoulder or neck, because I could sense discomfort along the nerve all the way up the line.

Another diminution of the quality of life due to my rapidly degrading corpus.

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Lindsey Graham sent a letter to Schumer requesting that the impeachment proceedings be dismissed. Now the letter contained the usual Graham bullshit
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