The Free Agent’s neighborhood is at the high-water mark of gentrification, so many of its houses were purchased during the new century’s home buying frenzy. Nevertheless, we are a happy and collegial group who enjoys the occasional neighborhood watch cocktail hour, or during last week’s splendid weather, a block party. It was at this outing, […]
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The Free Agent is saddened, but not surprised, that Mister Obama, oath of office not withstanding, has sided with terrorists against the First Amendment. In the President’s calculus, it is one of 350 million Americans exercising his right to burn a handful of dried wood pulp and ink that puts “our men and women in
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The Free Agent would like to take a break from her usual contemplation of how people may live together in peace and prosperity to ask: If a small number of people wished to enslave the majority, how best to go about it? Through most of history, would-be despots have favored brutality, but The Free Agent
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As The Free Agent’s atomic clock ticks down the months (yes, it ticks, as we who own them know) until the purchase of health insurance becomes required by law, she has been contemplating possible parallels between Obamacare and another compulsory insurance scheme, the conglomeration of state and federal programs known as unemployment insurance, or UI.
As you would imagine, the Tea Party movement would love to get The Free Agent’s endorsement, what with her unblemished reputation and mastery of English diction. But she requires a little more information. The Tea Party Patriots’ mission statement comprises three points: fiscal responsibility, respect for limited government as defined by the Constitution, and free
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When The Free Agent isn’t busy advising world leaders, she occasionally checks out what’s showing on the TV machine. A recent marathon of MTV’s documentary series, “Teen Mom” hooked her like crack. The show follows four veterans of a previous series, “16 and Pregnant”. One couple placed their baby with adoptive parents, two couples broke
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“Did you hear what your buddy Rand Paul said?” Nude Eel crowed recently. “He doesn’t think the government can tell him who he can serve in his restaurant, you can’t agree with that!” Like most Libertarians, The Free Agent is used to this kind of knee-jerk reaction. Mister Eel, who sees legislation (rather than the
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The Free Agent hasn’t thought about the most righteous hit “Two Princes” since she wore out the cassette in the 90s, but it’s played through her head all week as she’s listened to Mister Obama and Tim Geithner explain their financial overhaul legislation. The White House website’s summary includes one obvious dirty bomb, “financial firms
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The Free Agent reluctantly announces that it is now on with Sarah Jessica Parker. In the first episode of “Work of Art”, a reality competition show she exec-produces, Miss Parker shared with the artestants her motivation for the show. “I come from a family that loves art, I grew up in a time that the
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President Obama delivered remarks on the affordable care act and new patient’s bill of rights at the White House Tuesday. Among her many talents, The Free Agent is a polyglot, and offers a translation of those remarks from Politish into plain English: Stories like Amy’s and Taylor’s are exactly why we passed the Affordable Care