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bit the the LIST Seven signs that Rand Paul is running for president: over HEARD ((( ((( "I just saw WFPK DJ Laura Shine driving down Market Street while I was driving down Market listening to a pre-recorded Laura Shine Live Lunch advertisement. So meta!" He's on cable television more than CSI reruns. A recent issue of New York magazine boasted this cover line: "Rand Paul's Bright Future." (Headline on the story inside: "It's Hard to Hate Rand Paul.") OK, so the secondary headline wasn't quite so glowing — "The junior senator from Kentucky would be an appalling right-wing president, and yet he is a valuable politician: a man of conviction, and a visitation from a post-Obama political future." But a high-profle, semikneecap job by high-profle liberal Frank Rich in liberal New York surely scores points with the right. He's discovered west Louisville. (Never mind that his frst attempt to woo black voters there was a heavy-handed proposal to restore voting and gun rights of felons.) His flibuster — which should end any minute now — against the use of drones effectively launched Paul as a national fgure. And may well have served as his frst campaign rally. Every time politico-turned-pundit Chris (Hardball) Matthews opens his mouth — and that's a lot — he predicts that Rand Paul will be the Republican nominee. Fellow flibustering GOP Tea-Partier Ted Cruz actually makes Paul look like a rational and considered choice. — KW 22 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 11.13 cross ROADS Seventh Street Road at Berry Boulevard One of the great twin-lane car rides into downtown Louisville begins here: four-plus miles of curvy, dipping, smooth-paved Seventh Street Road, with underpasses, overpasses, a tunnel and few traffc lights — past the huge Derby Park Flea Market, past the Art Deco warehouses of the former Seagram's Calvert Distillery, past Algonquin Parkway and Hill Street before picking up Roy Wilkins Avenue with majestic Union Station on the horizon. Going the opposite way, when Seventh reaches Berry Boulevard, it fools you into thinking that it will continue due south, then instead ducks right toward Dixie Highway while the due-south path becomes Manslick Road. The intersection could only be described as pleasant if you fancy "gentlemen's clubs," used cars, package stores, tire outlets and White Castle. On the northwest corner, the Thorobred Lounge ("Where real men come to play") rules the roost; its close-by neighbor, Fantasy's Island Lounge, is like Oklahoma butting up against Texas. A few numbers down Seventh is the Doll House Gentlemen's Club, with its redfronded palm trees. Looking east on Berry, you can see that it's a boulevard in name only. From the crossroads, the Berry roadside is treeless for 500 yards before a small pin oak pops up across the street from the Foxy Lady club. Before the early 1950s, the acreage south of Berry and west to the CSX railroad tracks — now peppered with apartment housing — was the site of two huge government health operations far from the population center: West of Manslick was the Home of the Aged and Infrm, along with St. John's Eruptive Hospital, both relics opened in the 1870s to quarantine the poor when contagious diseases like smallpox and yellow fever periodically ravaged Louisville. East of Manslick was the predecessor to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center off Zorn Avenue, run during World War II as Nichols U.S. Army General Hospital and from 1946-'52 as the Nichols VA Hospital. The Home for the Aged and Infrm was closed in 1953 and razed to accommodate construction of the Southland Terrace Shopping Center. — JW