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- Krugman: Boilerplate GOP-bashing becomes Talking Heads homage. ('Now, as they survey the wreckage of their cause, conservatives may ask themselves: "Well, how did we get here?" They may tell themselves: "This is not my beautiful Right." They may ask themselves: "My God, what have we done?"')
- The Note: Eight paragraphs of inexplicable and terrible Springsteen gags. ("Former senator Fred Thompson knows no brilliant disguise will compensate for a bad debate tomorrow")