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Main Street Maverick

I’d like to quote from Cipher Theory before I begin this post:
Maverick, maverick and the maverick. Maverick mavericky maverickton. Tom Cruise is Maverick maverick maverick Goose.
Friggin’ Maverick.
Mave to the rick.
Maverick.
As Maureen Dowd pointed out on October 5th, “Palin…uses a heck of a lot of language to praise herself as a fresh face with new ideas [...]

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“I Don’t Think I’d Vote For a Republican for Dog Catcher at This Point”

I’ve seen an increasing polarization [under the Bush presidency], and willingness to demonize one’s opponents. All that red state/blue state bullshit. We saw more of it at the GOP convention with the implication in several speeches that they represent “real” Americans, as opposed to Democrats, who presumably represent all us degenerate urban perverts, elitists, dope [...]

Frank Rich Is as Angry as The Idea of Progress

I wanted to quote a line or two from Frank Rich in his editorial at the New York Times yesterday about our good friend from the north, Ms. Palin, but his piece was so angry and so full of information that I’m going to give you acouple of paragraphs of it:
We still [...]