The Unaksed Question

The Unaksed Question

Immeasurable Failures

By Which I Mean, Success!

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Andrew Biscontini
Sep 04, 2025
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“History has a stutter, It says: wuh-wuh-wuh… …Watch out!”

- Jon Langford, Sympathy for the Mekons, 1987

Q: What do you get when you give an intellectual with hemorrhoids a day job that forces him to sit on a stool transcribing all day?

A: Marxism.

If only he’d been an upholsterer, ol’ Karl might have patented the donut cushion. Or, if a chemist, a mi…

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