Latest polls show Joe Biden has extended his lead in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. This despite a last-minute surge by newcomer Pierre Delecto.
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Pierre Delecto is the name Utah Sen. Mitt Romney chose for a “lurker” account he created on Twitter. Think of it as a modern Publius, the pseudonym Alexander Hamilton would have used to tweet (or perhaps rap) support for the Federalist Papers, just in case anyone today really cared about the Constitution.
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President Trump has used the name David Dennison, among others. Anthony Weiner used to use Carlos Danger. As Shakespeare might have said, a rose by any other name still has only a 280 character limit per tweet.
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Or, perhaps, a rose by any other name still can be identified by the family dog riding atop the car.
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The best part about Pierre Delecto is you can go out as him Thursday night just by sticking a French mustache on a Mitt Romney mask. Then you can embark on a fun night of Trick or Tweets.
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That won’t be quite as obvious as the group of Republican Congress members who stormed a closed-door Democratic impeachment hearing last week dressed as a group of Republican Congress members.
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The Washington Wizards were called for 32 fouls in their season opener Wednesday night, proving, if nothing else, that Republican politicians aren’t the only people in the capital city who don’t like whistle blowers.
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Never mind all that, the current state of things in Washington has made Halloween actually seem delightful — a rare time when the scary things in life are really just hiding the adorable smiles of happy children.
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Just for fun, you could gather the neighborhood children together and have them all go out as Democratic presidential candidates on Halloween. It would be hard, however, to explain to the immature ones that they have to stay home unless they get at least 5% support in the polls.
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Disney unveiled the final trailer for its new Star Wars movie during a football game last week. Surprisingly, this one seems to involve a struggle between good and evil, with lightsabers and some special effects.