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QT: It’s All Over Now

By Zay N. Smith

QT Quadrennial Offering of Solace to Whichever Half of the Nation Isn’t Happy the Morning After:
These words are being written before the polls close.
Just know about Dick Tuck.
Tuck made his fame as a political prankster who liked to go after Richard Nixon.
There was the time Nixon was starting a whistle-stop speech from the back of a train.
Tuck put on a railroad cap, grabbed a railroad lantern and waved the train out of the station.
Tuck ran for the California State Senate in 1966.
He lost.
He stepped before the public and delivered a concession speech that has not been surpassed:
“The people have spoken. . . the bastards.”
And now we move on.

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Posted on November 7, 2012

QT: Election Special

By Zay N. Smith

News Headline: “Presidential race too close to call.”
A call was placed.
“This is the residence of Irene Hughes.”
QT wishes to speak to Irene Hughes, the noted psychic.
A moment was waited.
“Hello?”
The polls say the presidential race is close. Do you have any sense of who is going to win?
“Romney is going to win.”
Really.
“Romney will win by a substantial margin.”
Thank you.
“You’re welcome.”
QT called four more psychics.
The final survey results:
+ Mitt Romney: 2
+ President Obama: 2
+ No Prediction: 1
The trend is apparent.
One day to go.

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Posted on November 5, 2012

Elgin’s Art Deco Heritage

By The Elgin Area Historical Society

“Art Deco was a wildly popular design stye that originated in Paris France in the mid 1920s, and influenced art, fashion, interior design and architecture around the globe. Elgin, Illinois, played an important role in popularizing the Art Deco movement internationally. We’ll tell you how in this 30-minute cable-TV program. This production was a collaboration between the Elgin Area Historical Society and the Chicago Art Deco Society.”

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Posted on November 2, 2012

QT: Have We Seen Sandy’s Birth Certificate?

By Zay N. Smith

News Item: Right-wing theorists claim President Obama used a classified military project investigating the upper atmosphere–the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program–to create Hurricane Sandy for political purposes.
Interesting.
But it is well settled that gays cause hurricanes.
Let’s not turn our backs on science, shall we?

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Posted on November 2, 2012

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