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Thesis: Oliver Broudy spent so much time in the water agonizing about his swimsuits, his brain became water-logged.
Discuss among yourselves.
Readers. Readers. Take your medicine.
In lieu of strong support from the Edwards campaign, they should have replaced Ms. Marcotte and Ms. McEwan with a couple of equally feisty, sharp-tongued feminists with partisan sensibilities -- perhaps with less of a literary trail, perhaps not. In any event, surely Mr. Donohue's oeuvre should have been combed.
We won't ever be able to match the bullying, bellicose Medusa of the right blow for blow-beneath-the-belt, but we can hold up a mirror to reflect its ugly, poisonous visage back at the beast.
David, uh, are we done with the novelty numbers?
Democrat 2008: WE'LL BRING REAL CHANGE. JUST KIDDING.
Republican 2008: THE GOP: WE TAKE CRIME PERSONALLY
That was actually the heading of a Salon article that appeared about ten years ago. It reported on the flattening of libido and diminished sexual performance that a number of anti-depressants cause. Also, travel can be mood-brightening, but its felicitous effects are blunted when depression is severe: you can take a nice vacation but you have to bring your miserable self along.