The Carnival of the Vanities Number Nine, Number Nine - Page 6

Trainspotting

Where Worlds Collide - Imaginary Worlds - A great many model railway builders have also come up with elaborate fictional histories of the imaginary prototypes for their layouts in much the same way, whether it's a fictional county, or a fictional railway serving a real place that had no railway in our own history.

Unto These Hills
Fragments ~ From Floyd - Where I'm From - I am coming to appreciate my place as a minority blogger. No, I'm definitely a W.A.S.P. But I write from the Appalachian Mountains. There don't appear to be many bloggers who live here in this bioregion. Not many at all.

When Norwegian Bachelor Farmers Go Bad
The Claremont Institute - Sing Goddess of the Wrath of Garrison - I'm not saying Keillor is Achilles, but in politics, when control slips and things get nasty, anger is often the passion advancing the action. Angered at Agamemnon and the Greeks, Achilles left his fellows and sulked in his tent; then Patroclus, his friend-in-arms, died, and Achilles burst from his tent furious and murderous.

Eleven Day Empire - Go Back to Lake Woebegon - Well, Mr. Keillor, what, precisely, is the Democratic ideology? Opposition to war, sort of, except not really? Opposition to tax cuts, sort of, but not really opposed enough to actually repeal them? Support of international treaties, except not enough to actually ratify them? Support for welfare reform, kind of, sometimes, except not exactly?

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