'Ship of Fools' vs. 'Neocons on a Cruise'

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P J O'Rourke (via Amazon reader with the magic word 'soviet')

• The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies is supposed to have subscribed to the Village Voice for six years in  an attempt to find out about life in America's rural areas.
• ... brought the girl an armload of flowers. She blushed to the clavicle. 
• Sonya turned very sober. "Progressives," she sighed. "Everything must be made perfect for them." 
• "They are highly progressive. They are such great progressives I think I have almost all of them talked into defecting." "No, no, no, no, no," said Nikolai.
  

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Johann Hari  (via)

__ drunk on doubts
__ He is a judge, with the craggy self-important charm that slowly consumes any judge.