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Jeez, LAN3, thanks for picking on me in yesterday's Comments. Sometimes I think I need to hand in the little card they gave me for being an English major in college. (I double majored: English ("to keep me well rounded") and Computer Science ("to keep me well employed"--and frankly, I think it more or less worked, even if I tend to ramble on a bit.))

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Quip of the Moment

It's useless to try to hold some people to anything they say while they're madly in love, drunk, or running for office.

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Articles of the Moment
Slate has some good WTC-reading today, including two on incorrect public perceptions of the day: Wall Street Will Abandon New York - And all the other lousy post-9/11 economic predictions and What You Think You Know About Sept. 11...but don't.

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Quote of the Moment

My father's illness impressed on me from an early age that life was going to be a struggle, and there were a lot of losers.

His father, at the time a rising figure in the Conservative party, had an almost deadly stroke and lost the ability to speak for three years when Blair was 11. I really understand the sentiment, I think I felt something similar during my dad's illness and death when I was 14.