"I think there's a lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue-ribbon talk here."

– Chris Matthews on President Obama's Tuesday night speech

And here…

Image-- Detail of New Yorker cover 'Finish Line,' double fiction issue of June 14 & 21, 2010
Detail from cover of current New Yorker
in Thursday afternoon's Log24 post

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Image-- Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Saramago Dies at 87

See also "Saramago" in this journal
as well as his Nobel Prize lecture.