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I played soccer for years growing up and every year, without fail, we got trophies. Never won a championship. The first time it happened I was confused; then I learned that's just the Way Things Are. Those trophies are collecting dust in a box in a closet somewhere, or maybe I've already thrown them out. I don't know and I don't particularly care.

When people praise me for a job well done, I don't feel good. It kind of irritates me, especially when I know they're full of shit. I feel good when I actually accomplish something that wasn't guaranteed.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.