So, the other day, I found myself asking Martha, my wife, a very stupid question. That’s not unusual, of course. Stupid questions are among the things I do best. But, my particular question involved Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the young and articulate New York Rep. At the time, she had just recently gone back to her old…

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Last month,  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made the rather hysterically funny comment that the current GOP resembles “‘The Office character Dwight Schrute, a power-hungry, mustard yellow shirt-wearing paper salesman who lives on a beet farm” (to quote Huffpost). Honestly, truth be told and full disclosure…I didn’t get the joke at first. I don’t watch The Office.…

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