October 20, 2004

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Thoughts for a grey Wednesday

    By Jack Grant

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
   -Pat Paulsen

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatalbe.
   -John Kenneth Galbraith

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.
   -Karl Kraus

Posted by Jack Grant at 09:50 on 20 October 2004
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