car·riage re·turn

n. the lever or mechanism on a typewriter that would cause the cylinder on which the paper was held (the carriage) to return to the left margin of the page

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Nixon to Thompson:You ain’t nothin’but a hound dog…

God bless Richard Nixon. I mean that. Today the oft-beleaguered but fascinating crook former President reached from beyond the grave to give us yet another reason to laugh at one of the mainstream GOP candidates. Had Nixon not taped every last bit of his Presidency,we’d likely never have learned today that,in Tricky Read on…

Moral defeats do not lead to victories of any sort

In 1969 playwright and essayist Václav Havel wrote a letter to Alexander Dubček,First Secretary of the Central Committee of Czechoslovakia. Dubček,a reformer,had earned the displeasure of Eastern Europe’s Soviet overlords the previous year by instituting a modest platform of reforms,including recognition of individual liberties –freedom of speech,movement,Read on…