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"    Generally, when we want a good swig of cynicism, we cast our eyes upon the scandals of the federal government \u2014 your Michael Jackson fedora-buying Jesse Jackson Jr.&amp;#039;s, your frozen-pie box cash-stuffers like William Jefferson, and that good ol&amp;#039; Appalachian explorer Mark Sanford. But on the occasion of New York State Senator Malcolm Smith&amp;#039;s and, as of this morning&amp;#039;s arrest, Bronx State Assemblyman Eric Stevenson&amp;#039;s failed attempt to bribe himself onto the city&amp;#039;s mayoral ballot, let us not forget that there are equally comical disgraces transpiring right outside our very windows, every so often reaching out for the national spotlight like a milk-deprived babe. In that spirit, we offer the following cavalcade of numbskullery and shame mentioned in the past year or so of news:    "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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