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Re: Playing Politics for Your Money

Good catch, Karen -- but my latent high school drama geek is demanding that I point out the original source for your former editor's quip. It sounds like it may spring from this line: "No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up," from Lily Tomlin's one-woman show by Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, written in 1985, performed to confused forensics league judges across Nebraska in 1988.

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