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The Theory of Relative Proximity

The first thing to get my pulse pumping  for the big day ahead was a series of reports on the previous night’s murders, mayhem, rape, plunder and pillage. All dispensed by smiling bobble-head newsertainers , neatly served up between the local car dealership, mattress retailer, and the plumbing commercials. The morning kill report.

The Morning Kill Report

CUR·MUD·GEON

a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man. Examples of CURMUDGEON: Only a curmudgeon would object to the nursing home's holiday decorations.

At his quirky best, the elder Cooper is a curmudgeon right out of central casting, grumpy old man meets borscht-belt crank. He really does fiddle with his hearing aid and yell, “What? I can't hear you,” only to chide you afterward that there's no need to shout. —Norah Vincent, New York Times Book Review

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