I came across something that I wrote well over a year ago, and what follows is a re-run of the piece, and it certainly is not about I love Lucy, but rather about life and death, lies and misleads, torture and destruction, war and fear, and about most of the same perpetrators who keep telling the same "stories" over and over, and over again.
It is a re-run of the present.
Regarding the top slot, this fifth election is a re-run of the fourth.
She says the problem with the Tory version is that it is a re-run of Victorian debates.
There is a re-run of yesterday's stage and the pictures from Nibali's epic climb are pretty incredible.
It is a re-run of the proposed deal for Northern Rock by Lloyds TSB at the time of its collapse last summer.
Rather more likely is a re-run of the taut Welsh game, potentially with a different outcome if the English forwards can subdue the visiting back-row.
Clegg strategists calculate that Labour is beyond rescue, and that their task is to persuade wavering voters that all David Cameron's glitz offers is a re-run of the disappointment Tony Blair provided after 1997.
Many would not find it surprising if in the days running up to the Olympics or during the Games, there is a re-run of the wave of arrests which were made by police just before last year's Royal Wedding.
(By the way: I'm highlighting the names of most objects so they become links to the full documentation for the object. You can read it later when you're curious, frustrated, or Mad Men is a re-run; you certainly don't need to click them now).
But Republicans, who back a job-creation agenda focusing on loosening business regulations, say Mr Obama's jobs bill is a re-run of his 2009 stimulus.
