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WA Bishop's avatar

See? If you had read the book and been repelled by the feeling of new ideas and novel points of view invading your brain, you would now be a Republican, a Tea Partier even.

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PubOption's avatar

Did Gore Vidal rewire her brain? <a href="http://www.independent.co.u..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/brain-s...">http://www.independent.co.u...

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JustPixelz: IV%'er's avatar

The only effect Gore Vidal had on me was to give up reading.

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TundraGrifter's avatar

Or if she'd gotten a Buck Loner Special...

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TundraGrifter's avatar

Because I ordered a pair of tickets to the Bachmann/Palin concern in Minnesota (although I live in Califormia) I still get One-L Michele's emails.

And she keeps asking for money. Over and over again.

I read she raised some $11,000,000 - more than any other House candidate in the USofA. But that wasn't enough. She keeps asking for cash. And asking. And asking.

You know, those free tickets just weren't worth it...

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Spurning Beer's avatar

Don Van Vliet died? I hadn't heard. That's sad. He was a genius.

I guess I'm not really a Democrat after all. I'm an absurdist.

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BarackMyWorld's avatar

And that switch, like everything else she believes, came from a logical fallacy where she linked two things together in a way that makes no sense. Yes, her entire life for the last 30 years is based on a non sequitur. Oh, the stupid....how it must hurt....

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chascates's avatar

Working for Paul Wellstone might have given her a heart and a brain.

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SheriffRoscoe's avatar

It was when she put the book down and laughed that she became a republican, but it was when she discovered the train's rhythmic vibrations could be strangely pleasant, that her crazy eyed look took hold.

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fuflans's avatar

i believe michele just admitted her political beliefs are based on fiction.

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SheriffRoscoe's avatar

Up-fisted for the tilde tie-in.

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

I'm still stuck on the part where she was reading. A picture book maybe?

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