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Laura Ingraham v. Heather McDonald on Sarah Palin
Southern Appeal — ... . My take: McDonald–with “a self-ordained professor’s tongue too serious to fool” ( to borrow from B. Dylan )–reveals a deep loathing for those who do not share her cultural proclivity for academic pedigree, pontifical articulation, and self-congratulatory verbosity. She is, sadly, not alone among the hob nob right snobs. She is joined by the linguistically adept David Brooks, David Frum, Chris Buckley, and Kathleen Parker. They, of course, like George Barnard Shaw, Aldous Huxley, and Margaret Sanger, write well, think big thoughts, and attend all the right parties. To clip ...

"Forever Young."
Althouse — ... and I think the message of "Peter Pan" is that you ought to see the value of growing up. The child in the video looks at the stars and sees images of adult success: astronaut, politician, folksinger. You have to grow up to do those things. You may have noticed that the blog theme of the day is incoherence. In the category of Bob Dylan songs about retaining a youthful spirit, I much prefer "My Back Pages" -- listen here, lyrics here: A self-ordained professor's tongue Too serious to fool Spouted out that ...

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Maggie's Farm — Minneapolis, 1998. It's a Maggie's Farm theme song. Lyrics here.

"It’s peculiar and unnerving in a way to see so many young people walking around with cell phones and iPods in their ears..."
Althouse — ... A theme for the last day of school (which it is for me, the professor): A self-ordained professor's tongue Too serious to fool Spouted out that liberty Is just equality in school "Equality," I spoke the word As if a wedding vow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that nowWe don't have crimson flames tied through our ears anymore. Just white buds stuck in them. I'm the worst offender. When I walk around outside alone, not only do I have the earbuds in nearly all the time, but I am not even listening to ...