Here's an anomaly for you -- a real debate in a sound-bite world:
A group of tea-party activists in Texas will host a “modified Lincoln
Here's an anomaly for you -- a real debate in a sound-bite world:
A group of tea-party activists in Texas will host a “modified Lincoln
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The best thing about a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate is that it wouldn't be televised, and we wouldn't have to watch it.
Seriously, though, Cain is making a mistake. He's no match for Gingrich in a debate, but they are at opposite ends of most recent polls.
Will anyone actually watch this thing? Every time I hear Cain's tax plan I recall the scene in "Inglorious Basterds" where Hitler is yelling "Nein, nein, nein," and Brat Pitt answers "Oh, yes, yes, yes."
Ludlow's Law - named for the line caster which was used in hot type days to set headlines into type - says that the probability of a typo surviving to see daylight is proportional to the square of its prominence.
That is, if it is in the caption of a photograph, it's about three times as likely to be read as if it were in the body of the story, so it's one-ninth as likely to be fixed before ink hits paper. If it's in a large headline, it'll be 100 times as likely to be read, and only 1/100th of 1% as likely to be discovered and fixed.
And it's nice to see the Lincoldn-Douglas debates remembered in the land of Lincoldn National Bank, Lincoldn National Life Insurance, Lincoldn Tower, Lincoldn Highway, Lincoldn Continentals, Lincoldn Pennies, and Lincoldn Republicanism.
Ludlow for President!