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...some point along the way, though, the theories of political insiders collide with the physical realities of time, space and human endurance. That's when the logic starts to go haywire. The candidates grow hoarse and punchy. The well-crafted speeches devolve into strings of half-garbled sound bites. Yesterday's gaffe vanishes in the cloud of today's dustup. Who can keep track? It's a morning rally in St. Louis, noontime in St. Paul, nighttime in San Diego, and--saints preserve us--the campaign suddenly has all the coherence of Alice in Wonderland shouted from...
...concept of Super Tuesday that produces the sort of spectacular jumble Americans witnessed in recent days. It's the slapdash execution. "In and of itself, Super Tuesday is fine," said former Senator John Danforth of Missouri, a voice of logic, as the cacophony crescendoed. "But if you're going to have something like this, then candidates should have more than a week to campaign in 20-odd states...
...Kennedy manages to portray the human mind with (most of) its disorder and associative tendencies, and still drag a story out of it—though, at times, Kennedy exposes her narrative manipulations, clustering beloved ones’ deaths suspiciously close together or violating the mind’s logic by planting too-linear sequences of thought in Day’s brain.Virtually flawless, however, is Kennedy’s rich language and the even richer character who takes life from it. Kennedy writes like a smoother T.C. Boyle, her Britishisms landing softer on the ear than the American slang...
...They Do,” by Judith Rich Harris “Passions Within Reason,” by Robert H. Frank “The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are, The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology” and “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny,” by Robert Wright
...Well, do we need more F-22 to battle Beijing? Once again, Gates depressed the generals with his unassuming tone and logic. "Looking at what I regard as the level of risk of conflict with one of those near-peers over the next four or five years until the Joint Strike Fighter comes along," he said, "I think that something along the lines of 183 is a reasonable...