It’s Ruy Lopez’s World – We Just Live In It
If the Republican Party played chess, it would never resign. There’s no formal rule governing resignations in chess. You resign a losing position to signal you’re not a dick and to demonstrate that you may not know the game well enough to win, but you know it well enough to recognize a lost cause when you see one. If you don’t care about being a dick, and don’t care about looking like an idiot, you make your opponent play it out. Hell, they might die. The Republican Party would, after checkmate, continue to insist it was legally allowed to move.
If the Democratic Party played chess, it would tilt the board so that it shone in the Democratic Party’s own eyes. It would only play after it had eaten and drunk heavily. It would ask the Republican Pary to provide the rulebook. When the Republican Party provided a new rulebook halfway through it would switch to that one.
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Comment by Eric the .5b —
December 1, 2009 @ 2:46 am
“My party is the stupid party. Their party is the evil party.”
Comment by supergee —
December 1, 2009 @ 7:34 am
shone
Comment by Jim Henley —
December 1, 2009 @ 8:30 am
Jeez, Arthur, you know what a big influence Yglesias has been on me.
Comment by max —
December 2, 2009 @ 7:44 am
“My party is the stupid party. Their party is the evil party.”
Which needs updating and modernizing: “My party is the stupid & evil party. Their party is the evil & stupid party.”
max
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