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Driving into the parking lot, you might have guessed that you were at a Grateful Dead show were it not for the noticeably younger crowd. It's all too easy to slip into the cynical attitude that sneers "Who are all these drunk and stoned idiots and why are they ruining my band?" The fact of the matter is that at the smaller shows of yesteryear the idiot-factor was probably the same--proportionally there were probably just as many, but now it's 50% of 12,000 instead of 50% of 1,200. Furthermore, these shows are such...
...depends, of course: Bad taste in what? There were Nazis who came home from work at Auschwitz and listened to Mozart. An elegant emperor may also be a sadist or an idiot or a weakling. If good taste were the qualification for leadership, the greatest Presidents might be interior decorators...
...said, "As a matter of fact, Marilyn and I were talking about it afterward. It was just the kind of speech we had hoped for." There are only two possibilities here. Either this comment is exactly the kind of mindless gushing that stamped Quayle with the image of an idiot -- which he claims is unjustified -- or what he said reflected his considered views on the subject. Which is it? Well, I don't think Quayle is an idiot...
...fact, you didn't have to be an idiot to think that cultural war was a winning strategy. At the time, I also thought that Buchanan's speech was effective -- chillingly effective. (And Buchanan contends that a script of the speech was cleared in advance by several Republican officials, despite their later efforts to portray him as an unguided missile.) But it turns out we were all wrong. The voters were not interested in a cultural war. What has changed in the political landscape in the two years since Quayle's Murphy Brown speech is not a return to "family...
...that I walk out and there's no audience or that I've broken a $250,000 television camera. Your anxiety dreams are just replaced by new anxiety dreams. I was really into the idea, especially when I was in college--when you're in college, you're an idiot about life, or at least I was--the idea that, if you could get through the problems in your life and accomplish things, you'd have no more problems. I think the pressure of the show is tough, but then I think--I haven't had kids...