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I remarked that If you’re havin’ electoral problems I feel bad for you son, I got 538 problems but partisan bias ain’t one, and it got such a strong reaction it caused me to rethink my entire approach to political blogging, so I followed up with, What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
In other news, Paul “I’m not Galbraith” disses Larry “I’m not Krugman” Summers and we ask, What is the middle class?

Also, Essentialist reasoning about the biological world.
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