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An interesting interview with Neil Stephenson is up on /. now.
Because she'd never heard of me, she made the quite reasonable assumption that I was a Dante writer---one so new or obscure that she'd never seen me mentioned in a journal of literary criticism, and never bumped into me at a conference. Therefore, I couldn't be making any money at it. ( Read more... )

30 seconds of work-safe feel-good, via Quicktime: Here.

From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18935-2004Sep13.html: A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives is supporting legislation that would repeal virtually all of the District's gun restrictions, targeting one of the nation's most stringent handgun bans while the presidential candidates are battling over gun limits.
Rep. Mark ( Read more... )

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Retired general Tomy Franks, commander-in-chief of the United States Central Command under George W Bush, current Bush supporter and speaker last week at the Republican Convention, describing Bush appointee Doug Feith, the Pentagon Undersecretary:
I have to deal with the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth almost every day.

This is ( Read more... )

Retired General Anthony Zinni was commander-in-chief of the United States Central Command from 1997 to 2000, in charge of all American troops in the Middle East. That was the same job held by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf before him, and Gen. Tommy Franks after. In an interview with CBS: "I give all the credit in the world to Ambassador Bremer as a ( Read more... )

"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States," Cheney told about 350 supporters at a town-hall meeting in this Iowa city.

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There are Clinton Democrats, and there are Dukakis Democrats. Dukakis Democrats take the high road: a campaign of issues that they can feel good about, when they are retired, after they lose. Clinton Democrats respond fast and hard, they know that politics is a fight. (They don't call James Carville 'snakehead' because he is a nice guy.)
To help ( Read more... )

The anecdote below was written and published in 2001, long before Zell decided to help Bush. It's from pp. 103-05 of James Carville and Paul Begala's book Buck Up, Suck Up, and Come Back When You Foul Up, describing their experiences working for his campaign.
One of the most amazing experiences of our political career turned on the issue of ( Read more... )