{"id":7755,"date":"2014-08-21T09:03:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/21\/no-swisher-sweets-for-old-bill\/"},"modified":"2014-08-21T09:03:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:03:33","slug":"no-swisher-sweets-for-old-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/21\/no-swisher-sweets-for-old-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"No Swisher Sweets for Old Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

In other news<\/a>,<\/span><\/p>\n

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When you pull in a half-million dollars a speech, why not celebrate with the "Rolls Royce" of cigars? <\/span><\/p>\n

Former President Bill Clinton reportedly indulges in some of the world's most expensive cigars, from a Dominican Republic company whose smokes fetch up to $1,000 — that's per cigar, not per box.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You will recall that the late Michael Brown of Ferguson fame displayed bad taste in cigars along with bad moral judgment  when he shoplifted a package of Swisher Sweets in the penultimate adventure of his short life.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Treading the Middle Path, and avoiding the extremes of our first black president and of the latest poster boy of the hate-America race baiters, I recommend to you the Arturo Fuente 'Curly Head,' under $3 per stick.  Cheap but good and proportional to the speaking fees a philosopher is likely to pull down.<\/span><\/p>\n

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