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Call me Ishmael. Not so long ago I found myself back in New York, walking the windy spring streets around Times Square, trying to find a place I couldn't get out of my mind ever since I'd first found it there a couple years back. Perhaps it was too formidable a task, for the place was not so much a physical locale, nor a building, but it was more of a feeling. The doorway to it had been inside the Times Square Brewery, and though the Brewery was still there, the doorway to the feeling was gone, and search as...

1. Liberals detest the Truth so much that they will often refuse to make money off of it. It's a matter of principle. 2. The main problem with liberal solutions to liberal problems is that they cause more liberal problems which afford opportunities for more liberal solutions. 3. Venture Capitalists can't afford poetry. 4. Cynicism and irony are the liberals' faith, and to be accepted into their elite ranks, one must harbor lowered expectations in one's heart. One must believe that words shouldn't mean anything, one must believe that character is of no import in leaders nor novels, one...