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Paperless Tiger's avatar

I think it's high time we all started to give a fuck about this Alinsky fellow.

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sweeper's avatar

I have my suitcase under the bed, as they say. Must renew passport.....

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sweeper's avatar

I....I am overwhelmed with the desire to abandon a terribly sick person.....

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sweeper's avatar

I got better.

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Bobo Brazil's avatar

Dat ole' Debbil.

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Bobo Brazil's avatar

Jefferson really didn't wait around for Godot.

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Mojo's avatar

Ah Sleepy Ben, still one of the funniest yet saddest figures of this election.

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sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

Whew... that was a close one!!

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ThatDale's avatar

I'm too lazy to read anything but the post, so apologies if someone else has pointed this out.

Over and over the howler monkeys screech that Alinsky dedicated his book to Satan, and I had never thought much about it until blogging about this very issue today. (Wonkette will be relieved that we came to the same conclusions.)

But as I scanned the online version, it came to my retired librarian brain that the Alinsky passage is not a dedication. It is, as Vox points out, an epigraph, that is, a quote that encapsulates or underscores the main ideas of the text. Alinsky dedicated his book to his wife and some of his literary/publishing team on the dedication page, before the epigraph page.

Whoa if true!*

*It's true. You can look it up.

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DrCasbahJazz's avatar

So, Alinsky also mic-checked Thomas Paine? The same Thomas Paine whose works were, IIRC, recently re-"written" by Glenn Beck? So, is Old Nick wiping the ubiquitous tears from Beck's eyes?

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SugarplumCheryl's avatar

If it were at all possible to vote for Hillary harder than I already plan to do, the idea that she was a closet Satanist would make me do so.

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President Rufus T. Firefly's avatar

Only an old-fashioned fiddling contest can fix this.

Firefly 2016! Re-engreaten Freedonia!

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Alex Grey's avatar

And there's tons of violence, drinking, and sex.

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Notreelyhelping's avatar

And the Irish, who need not apply.

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dshwa's avatar

Or that all the God stuff was added long after the founders were all dead.

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Alexander Stallwitz's avatar

The Blair Witch?!

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