• “It's going to get worse before it gets better. The Ethics and Public Policy Center is going to release this”
      Posted on Fearmongering vs. Plain Speaking September 12, 2010 1:26 PM
    • “Take what you want from me, TheraP I'd be proud, proud, proud, to be included. And thanks, of course. mike”
      Posted on More Public Service September 9, 2010 8:15 PM
    • “Our blog. I don't own tpmaholics. Anyone who wants authorship privileges just has to ask. an e-mail to amike401@yahoo.com will”
      Posted on NOW IT'S TIME TO SAY GOODBYE September 8, 2010 8:47 PM
    • “Locke said something quite similar when he was defining property in the first place--the limits on what one could take”
      Posted on Republican Geese and TPM Ganders September 6, 2010 8:32 PM
    • “I tried posting once, but it didn't take. I don't have words to tell you how good this is. I”
      Posted on For Labor Day: "Kowalczyk's Hat" September 6, 2010 8:08 PM
    • “I remembered dubya's vest as polka dotted...shows you how memory can be a tricky thing. Happy Labor Day, DD. Took”
      Posted on ALL IS VANITY--WITH A BIT OF INCOMPETENCE SPRINKLED IN!! September 6, 2010 5:44 PM
    • “This gem from Menell's article is worth the price of admission all by itself: Quoting F. A. Hayek: The difference”
      Posted on Republican Geese and TPM Ganders September 6, 2010 5:11 PM
    • “needless to say, I'm more Linus than Lucy. :-)”
      Posted on Flash: Fiction September 6, 2010 12:09 PM
    • “Peter Rabbit is this stupid book About this stupid rabbit who steals Vegetables from other peoples' gardens [Hmm. 83 to”
      Posted on Flash: Fiction September 6, 2010 12:08 PM
    • “Are you nominating Dr. Kotarak for a Darwin award? http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/”
      Posted on A COMEDY OF ERRORS September 4, 2010 11:11 AM
    • “This is not the promise of America. This is the promise of Horatio Alger in the late nineteenth century. This”
      Posted on AND DELIVER US FROM TAXES, AMEN! September 3, 2010 7:20 PM
    • “I think I tend to concentrate on what's left? If what is left is still more than the median income”
      Posted on AND DELIVER US FROM TAXES, AMEN! September 3, 2010 6:49 AM
    • “$297,619.00 to be precise. My math wasn't all that hot...this is over 20 times my tax burden.”
      Posted on AND DELIVER US FROM TAXES, AMEN! September 2, 2010 9:07 PM
    • “I need to polish my glasses, or maybe my eyeballs. I read that as "Deliver us from Texas" and, thinking”
      Posted on AND DELIVER US FROM TAXES, AMEN! September 2, 2010 9:04 PM
    • “Some of us did pay to get this started, and we'd pay again--there are fund drives on a lot of”
      Posted on 'Hey World, Whatcha Say; Should I Stick Around (the Café) for Another Day?' September 2, 2010 6:42 PM
    • “I'm going to stick my nose in and quickly withdraw it, perhaps with just a few scratches on it. Exceptions”
      Posted on 'Hey World, Whatcha Say; Should I Stick Around (the Café) for Another Day?' September 2, 2010 6:32 PM
    • “I rather like long winded myself--but then my attention span tolerates thoughtful pieces, regardless of whether I agree with every”
      Posted on Serving Two Masters Is No Longer Tenable September 2, 2010 7:21 AM
    • “Love your stuff, Thera, always have, always will. Some of us are thinking of a group blog. You wouldn't by”
      Posted on TheraP's Blog - Redux September 1, 2010 7:00 PM
    • “Mean people can be redeemed. They can, they can. They just need to enroll in meanness rehab at the Thumper”
      Posted on President Signs Whitney's Law September 1, 2010 6:33 AM
    • “At the heart of all of this, MHO, is the demonization of the word "socialized". The woman isn't dumb, again,”
      Posted on Read, weep September 1, 2010 6:25 AM
    • “I can't get to the archives, and I wanted to find out if anyone else commented on Moat's tribute to”
      Posted on TPM Cafe Blogs ... Are the Lights Still On and the Coffee Pot Plugged In? [re-posted] August 31, 2010 9:04 PM
    • “The white beard basically gets me confused with Santa when I ride public transport. It also hides a whole bunch”
      Posted on Ancient Malignancy Metastasizes Anew August 31, 2010 8:54 PM
    • “Want to research this together? When I upgraded to Windows 7 I lost the link to the chat are Ken”
      Posted on CRYING IN MY BEER August 30, 2010 7:33 PM
    • “Once you have the stuff downloaded, get a free blog at Blogger or one of the other alternatives, upload the”
      Posted on A request before TPM pulls the plug! August 30, 2010 7:26 PM
    • “Thanks, Wendy. My own garden is a mess this year. But maybe next year I'll attach the wretched bittersweet with”
      Posted on O, the Bounty of the Hard-won Garden! August 30, 2010 7:08 PM
    • “What everyone else said. Thanks Purple State, from an admirer in the Ocean State. :-)”
      Posted on A vision for TPMCafe? August 30, 2010 6:57 PM
    • “Thanks so much for doing this, moat. I was afraid I nobody would come to the fest. And I love”
      Posted on Festschrift for PseudoCyAnts: Another One August 30, 2010 6:52 PM
    • “Dear Dick: I've loved reading what you write, didkday, and will continue to love to read it and to be”
      Posted on CRYING IN MY BEER August 30, 2010 6:28 PM
    • “Thanks for putting me on the list, Libertine. I'm pleased by the company I'm in.”
      Posted on A History of TPM Cafe--according to Bwakfat August 30, 2010 6:19 PM
    • “Believe it or not, and I expect you will not, I did not know who produced the pitchforks. My assumption,”
      Posted on A History of TPM Cafe--according to Bwakfat August 30, 2010 6:14 PM

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  • Politics I think I'm left. Either that or left out.

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  • Favorite Books The one I'm currently reading, plus anything by Dr. Seuss. The Ring Cycle (Tolkein's not Wagner's). Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Reis' How the Other Half Lives.
  • Favorite Quotes Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton http://tinyurl.com/yzuklm I don't care what you believe in, so long as you don't believe in it too strongly. A belief is a weapon in the armoury of your heart, and its razor edge will murder the innocent. The ice, the fire of your passion will seduce mundane men and women. Your clarity will excite respect. And the first demagogue who comes along with a key to your heart's armoury will wrest the weapon from your moral grasp. The first cause which wears the colours of your belief will enlist you as a soldier in ravaging crusades. Peace friend. Keep your passion to doubt with. Our civilization is a simple matter of live and let live, of giving dreams a go, but stepping back with a wry smile when we get it wrong. Let the fundamentalists perish in their own pillars of fire. Spare a dollar for the living, and have a nice day. Thor May http://thormay.net/unwiseideas/unwisendx.html

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Jack of all trades, master of some: Ph. D. American Studies, 38th (make that 39th) year in the classroom Jolly fun, what what?

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