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Isn’t this illegal?

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 [...]

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Quick Thoughts

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

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 would actually [...]

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Danforth on Evangelicals

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

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” version is getting play on [...]

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