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It was easy to make fun of Bush, but it was sort of like shooting fish in a barrel and it didn't really feel all that good because it was so easy to do. I would much rather live under a thoughtful president. Even if it makes it harder to be funny about politics, it makes it more interesting to be funny about politics.

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English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up aroun…

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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

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Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too la…

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The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South.

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Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always soun…

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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

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Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the a…

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Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

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I do not Twitter. I don't want to Twitter, and I don't see any point in Twittering. The last thing I want to do is tell people what I'm doing at the …

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