I can't copy to anything to the clipboard

My clipboard just seems to die randomly.  I can't nail down when or how.  I restart my laptop and it works fine for a while.  But later in the day, all of the sudden I can no longer copy anything.  I select some text and copy or cmd-C and go somewhere else and paste and it just pastes the last thing I had in the clipboard from earlier in the day.
Also, once I copy something, I can go to the Finder and choose Show Clipboard from the edit menu and it appears blank.
Any ideas?

Unless you can find a way to reproduce the problem at will, it will be almost impossible to track down. There has to be something you can do to make it fail.

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