Perhaps you remember that old dirty joke about the three great lies. The first: “The check’s in the mail.” The second: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” (If you don’t already know the third one, I’ll let you google it.)
I’ve been thinking a lot about the second of those phrases, and why Americans, in partic…
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