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Now hear this
Lester Young: DB Blues
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“Military action” doesn’t mean war, of course. - Ezra Klein, Washington Post
Recovered history
Jim Hightower - In 2002, it was reported that British Prime Minister Tony Blair had told a friend about our man George W. Bush. It seems that the two of them and French President Jacques Chirac had gotten into an economics discussion, after which George supposedly confided to Tony that he was decidedly unimpressed with Jacques' views: "The problem with the French," Bush scoffed, "is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur.'"
Rules of thumb
Zigzag to outrun a crocodile
Quotes
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good - Steven Wright
Pocket paradigms
The endless argument about who said what to whom about what demonstrates an illusion about honesty shared by all sides. America - including its politicians, media and ordinary citizens, have accepted a legal definition of honesty, to wit: if a public person can not be proved to have lied by the rules of a criminal court, he or she can't be called dishonest and, in the case of a nominee, remains qualified for office. In other words, our standard for confirmation to high office had become no better than that for acquittal of a common thief.
But lying often has little to do with court-defined perjury. It more typically involves hyperbolic hoodwinking, unsubstantiated analogy, cynical incitement of fear, deceitful distortion, slippery untruths, gossamer falsehoods, disingenuous anecdote, artful agitprop, and the relentless repetition of all the foregoing in an atmosphere in which facts are trampled underfoot by a mendacious mob and their semantic weapons.
One does not have to analyze such language legally to understand its evil. One need only have enough understanding of the manner of the honest, the sincere and the candid to know almost instinctively when their opposite is in command.. -Sam Smith
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