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Yeah, I know, this is a sideshow--it has nothing to do with the issues; it's pop-culture noise that doesn't matter. Except it does. Entertainment surrogates can make points you wouldn't put in your candidate's own mouth. (Clinton probably could not compare herself to a mean old nun who forces you to learn the capital of Vermont. Coming from Fey, it somehow works.) They attract free media. They can capture emotion more viscerally than a policy paper. (By playing off the rhythm and call-and-response of Obama's words, Yes We Can literally rendered...
...Culture novels (there are eight of them) are about the challenges of a world in which thinking beings must deal with one another across vertiginous gulfs of cultural and technological difference--a world, in other words, both completely different from and identical to our own. In Matter (Orbit; 593 pages), Banks' first Culture novel since Look to Windward, one of those technological gulfs opens up within a family: Djan Seriy is born into a royal clan on a backwater planet, but she is recruited into the Culture. Her brother Ferbin remains behind on their primitive home world. (Which is, incidentally...
...tension comes down to the season’s final game. “It’s not to win it all, this game is literally for fourth place,” Arnett said. “And they find out that it won’t matter anyway, and they still play the game. So there’s a little bit of a twist there.” Arnett made a name for himself as G.O.B. on “Arrested Development,” and previously acted alongside Ferrell in “Blades of Glory...
...can’t believe I’m sending you off to strangers! They’ll judge you, I know, but I don’t want you to worry. I used to hope you would make me proud, but that doesn’t matter to me that much anymore. I’m proud of you no matter what, and never forget that...
...matter what his advisers say, Obama wins nothing by shying away from his differences. After all, Obama is the candidate of change. He should take a cue from McCain's courage on Iraq. Say what you will about McCain, but he knows he's the war candidate. And though may have regretted saying it out loud, McCain clearly accepts that if voters don't buy his vision for the war, he'll lose. It's not too much risk for Obama to stake his campaign on voters' ability to rationally understand the difference between a Hawaii-born Christian and Saddam...