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The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.


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Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.



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The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.



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Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.





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