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From a recent episode of Get Your War On.

Accounts Payable
Look, man, if McCain is elected, I can guarantee you will never be bored. Because America’s going to be a dynamic, exciting country again!
Accounts Receivable
Because everything’s gonna be on fire.
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We didn’t see much of the Bradley effect last night, but now we might have to invent the “Stevens effect” — reluctance to admit to pollsters that you would vote for a convicted felon.

Brendan
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Used on my “About” page. 

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Vote! Decisions are made by those who show up.

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I see this as a potentially promising post‐election wedge issue for the GOP — surely they’ll be able to get substantial support from moderate Democrats for a Federal Pant‐Sagging Act (FPSA) and then dare Obama to issue an unpopular veto.

Matthew Yglesias
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The rules are explicit here — if you have consensual sexual relations with anyone not legally old enough to consent to such behavior, it’s statutory rape regardless of whether they turned themselves into an adult by making a wish to a Zoltar machine. [Elizabeth] Perkins’ character worked with Josh Baskin (the Tom Hanks character) in New York City when the age of consent was 15 years old. Well, Baskin was only 13 at the time. So there you go.

Bill Simmons
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Animating the YouTube Arrow

• Posted in JavaScript, Web

Whenever I drift into one of my twice‐weekly YouTube stream‐of‐consciousness video‐watching binges, I let myself be bothered by a small, inconsequential nitpick. Here’s the “Related Videos” heading in its collapsed state: And here it is in its expanded state: Though there’s no animation between these two states, I’ve always considered…

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