Wednesday

"Prostitution is legal in Nevada but mandatory in D.C." Bill Kauffman

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". . . an isolationist America is a peaceful America; had we minded our own business, bin Laden and his deranged murderers would be as indifferent to our land as George W. Bush is to the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne." Bill Kauffman

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"Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis–A regionalist dystopia by a Minnesota Firster. George Babbitt is a fool not because he is provincial but because he has bought into the lie of mass culture. If you drink at Starbucks and watch Sex and the City, you're Babbitt." Bill Kauffman
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"Mencken as grad student is no more plausible than Bill Clinton as Benedictine." Bill Kauffman