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the dead hand

Saturday, November 22, 2008

We’re in a strange historical trough at the moment, as the economy gets worse and worse. Laura McKenna, at 11D, fears the CitiGroup crisis is worse than reports have told us, and says “Rumor has it that Citibank is going to go bankrupt.” So as public affairs exhibit all the signs of panic on the [...]

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lay that pistol down, babe; don’t shoot that snow snake

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

I remember a story, my mother used to tell when we were all younger, and she was still in the world, to the effect that my father would stop and shoot snakes on the roadways in New Mexico because they could get inside your car. Last evening at dinner with friends from North Dakota I [...]

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and as if Tina Fey weren’t enough for your average Monday,

Monday, September 15, 2008

Garrison Keillor has a wonderful Salon column today about how the Republicans are running against themselves. I especially like this couple of paragraphs, in light of all the sneering and hand-wringing about elitism I’ve encountered lately. . . . [A] former mayor of a town of 7,000 who hired a lobbyist to get $26 million [...]

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