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"I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing..."

"... and I’d think 'in the time that I don't spend writing, I could raise a family of five.' In a lot of ways, being a writer is lonely and alienating. You hear about the work ethic of people like Joyce Carol Oates and John Updike and you think 'well, ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  12 Oct 2008

Calm down at The Pink Rose Tea Room

Given what this kind of flower looks like (these particular examples less than others), I tend to get more excited than calmed down. Hey the WORLD CHAMPION NEW YORK GIANTS are not going to play until Monday Night Football so we can relax this Sunday as ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  12 Oct 2008

An old person expressing anger about race is entirely different from a young person raging about the government.

We absolutely can't expect those youngsters to express themselves appropriately. Can we finally raise the voting age to 40, then? I think you're way off base on this one Ann. Cruel neutrality has you bending over backward into taking a side. Twisted ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  12 Oct 2008

At the last debate, Obama spoke at the 9th grade level and McCain spoke at the 7th grade level.

To make those word clouds of Obama and McCain's speech at the last debate, I had to edit the transcript to produce a separate text for each man's words. As you can see in the previous post, I was testing my own writing with Flesch Reading Ease Score ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  12 Oct 2008

Jack Cashill's strange notion that Bill Ayers wrote "Dreams From My Father."

This Andy McCarthy post convinced me to read Jack Cashill's (long) argument that maybe Bill Ayers wrote "Dreams From My Father." I'd noticed Cashill's piece the other day, but rejected the notion out of hand. I mean, of course, there's a good chance ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  12 Oct 2008

The Givhan of HuffPo is pretty sure her Women's Studies professor vomits whenever she sees Sarah Palin.

Another well-reasoned argument from Obama supporters who appear willing to throw over everything they stand for in order to support Barry or crush his opponents. It's just one more instance of "feminists" willing to put Dem party politics above ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  12 Oct 2008

The Featherweight Café.

I am an economic featherweight, so perhaps here is the place to pose a question provoked by the comment thread having to do with the secret ballot, unions, and the wage rate. I've long been partial to Thomas Paine's argument in his essay Agrarian ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  11 Oct 2008

"Sounds to me like the classic what-if about killing Hitler has been put into practice."

I think this is more akin to what if David Duke got in a fatal car accident. I do not think Austria in 2008 is anthing like Austria in the late 1930s. Hilter was a monster, but he happened to be in the right place at the right time. You don't think ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  11 Oct 2008

Is it Greenspan's fault?

Greenspan repeatedly refused to reign in the supply of money. An abundance of money was rightly dumped into the banking system after 9/11 to keep markets calm and orderly. That oversupply should have been corrected beginning in 2003, but wasn't. The ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  11 Oct 2008

"Alaska Inquiry Concludes Palin Abused Powers."

It means the Dems are rank amateurs when it comes to swiftboating. I'm missing how this makes her look bad. It means something, sure. It means the Obamatrons now have another way of diverting attention away from more substantial issues. For example, ...

From ANN ALTHOUSE, Althouse,  11 Oct 2008

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