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Isn’t this illegal?

Posted in Posts, tagged , on September 18, 2006 | Comments Off

Via Kevin Drum, here’s a quote which leapt off the screen at me:
O’Beirne’s staff posed blunt questions to some candidates about domestic politics: Did you vote for George W. Bush in 2000?
This seems to me to be a patently illegal question insofar as interviewing and fair employment laws and all that. It probably isn’t [...]

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Quick Thoughts

Posted in Posts, tagged , , , on September 8, 2006 | Comments Off

Quick Thoughts
This quote always bothers me:
And Mr Bush won the 2004 presidential election with more votes than any president in history.
(Economist, America’s Longest War, August 31, 2006).
That wouldn’t be a function of the fact that there are more, you know, voters than at any time in history?
Argh.

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Leon is everywhere

Posted in Posts, tagged , , , on October 17, 2005 | Comments Off

Matthew Yglesias: A Cop-Out
What strikes me here is the fact that Ms. Senior made the unfortunate choice of quoting Leon Botstein. Why, I wonder, is he so CONSTANTLY quoted in magazines? It’s weird. Maybe I would just for once like to see him explain, in one of these many quotations, why someone [...]

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Danforth on Evangelicals

Posted in Posts, tagged , , on June 17, 2005 | Comments Off

Via The Washington Monthly: Danforth on right-wing evangelicals: “for us, the only absolute standard of behavior is the commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves.”
Amen, brother.

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Condition of Music

Posted in Posts, tagged , on September 27, 2004 | Comments Off

All Art Constantly Aspires Toward the Condition of Music. A favorite quote of mine. I am reminded of it while listening to Lennon’s “Imagine”. Granted, the words are a bit treacly, but that easy, simple piano just works wonders for them. Another good example is “Let It Be”, whose “Naked” [...]

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