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King James AND his dirtbag dad Darnley both potentially being booted in round one is soothing for the soul

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Mar 20Liked by Allison Epstein

As a newish follower I had so much fun catching up on all the dirtbaggery and reading 90% of these in one sitting. He might be more recent than you usually do but I’d like to humbly suggest Huey P. Long, former governor of Louisiana and absolute queen, who built a massive art deco state capitol with lots of pictures of himself and a swimming pool that’s *just* larger than the standard size, and who died because he was playing petty political games and had refused to fix the roads leading from his doctors in New Orleans to Baton Rouge where he’d been shot

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my only stipulation is that dirtbags be a) already dead and b) entertaining to me personally, so he absolutely meets the criteria!!

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I'm am so here for this.

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Mar 19Liked by Allison Epstein

Excellent. I am in for the win.

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Too many dirbags in one newsletter. Hehe. This was fun.

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This was super fun and a genius way of presenting a bunch of dirtbags all at once. My feathery hat's off to you!

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Damn all of you who did not vote for Tycho Brahe, my ride or die.

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I see you, and I am right there with you.

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The opening paragraph reminded me of my own stresses. Glad to know I'm not the only one :) Excellent choices of dirtbags. Ironically I'm reading Victor Hugo's book right now, but I still had to go with Napoleon (I still love you Hugo).

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I like what you do, and when things change for me (it’s complicated), I may likely pay-subscribe, but I have to report also that I loathe down to my bones the very concept of the “side hustle.”

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