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POPSChris Matthews vs. Kevin James MATTHEWS: You don’t know what you’re talking about, Kevin. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Tell me what Chamberlain did wrong. JAMES: Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser, Chris. Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser, all right? MATTHEWS: I’ve been sitting here five minutes asking you to say what the president was referring to in 1938 at Munich. JAMES: I don’t know. MATTHEWS: You don’t know, thank you. You don’t understand there’s a difference between talking to the enemy and appeasing. What Chamberlain did wrong, most people would say, is not talking to Hitler, but giving half of Czechoslovakia in 1938. That’s what he did wrong. Appeasement is giving things away to the enemy.
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POPSFred Thompson Vs. The Moonshiners "Thompson easily won convictions for possession of moonshine, but Judge Gray was lenient in sentencing, rarely doling out jail time. "It was a game," said Merritt, the former U.S. attorney. "Gray didn't like these cases. He thought they were a waste of time, and he was right."
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POPSThinking vs. Feeling I always thought I was exclusively a thinking type but I'm pretty sure I'm evenly balanced these days.
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POPSThe Real Cultural War This poignant, optimistic conclusion from David Brin's essay (on how fundamentalist ideologies lead to the destruction of Enlightenment values) was so good, I had to clip. (Please to direct pithy, dismissive comments elsewhere. Thank you.)