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Many would credit the system with actually protecting our popular sovereignty by hindering voter fraud. They reason that in states, minority party voter fraud is quite unlikely because the minority party would have to fool the majority party into believing that they had beaten the odds and won an unlikely election. However, majority party fraud is much easier because the party with the power can make it happen, and people are expecting the general division of votes to be in the majority's favor anyway. So inflating vote totals in a certain area from 60 percent to say 70 percent...
...will not call him an idiot or an imbecile or a fool or a moron, even though in the past few days he unquestionably has exhibited such characteristics when brazenly...
Yorke, the group's central songwriter, is obsessed with the disillusioned and the disoriented: a plastic surgeon in a fool's war with gravity, a crash victim who finds his near death experience makes him feel alive, an earthbound stargazer who dreams of abduction by alien spacecraft. His voice is often sampled, distorted by synthesizers, his lyrics broken into elegiac fragments, shards of thoughts, mantras of melancholia. "I woke up sucking a lemon," Yorke sings on Everything in Its Right Place, and the phrase is repeated again and again in a plaintive sample. Throughout Kid A he returns...
...office, without the Nobel. Is the Middle East too much for even Clinton's resilient and conciliatory shmooze? I think of the shrewd imperialist Kipling: "At the end of the fight is a tombstone white/ with the name of the late deceased./ And the epitaph drear: A fool lies here/ Who tried to hustle the east...
...Although Jones later in his career was able to overcome the ornate encumbrances of Epic producer Billy Sherrill (think "He Stopped Loving Her Today"), he is at his best unadorned by violins and massed choruses. I also think that the early Sixties, when "Mr. Fool" was recorded, was when he was at his vocal peak. Writers often rave about how Sherrill persuaded Jones to explore a greater range, but the high-lonesome sound on this cut has a rawness and emotion that travels even further into the heart than his more mannered later efforts. If you agree, "Cup of Loneliness...