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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

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Ted Rall
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 26
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Journalist
Novelist
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Frederick Theodore Rall III
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Shakespeare
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I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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Americans are not terribly intelligent people. They need to read important things several times.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
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Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.
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Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
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Close friends love you for who you are not what they want you to be.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Here in the US, we've built this insane infrastructure of oppression. When it's not run by a Barack Obama - who, by the way, I don't think is a perfect president - but by someone who is off-kilter, like a Carly Fiorina, that could be dangerous.
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