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THE AXIS OF BANALITY (CONT.)

"I was too depressed to even speak this morning. I thought of my late mother, who read Mein Kampf when it came out in the 1930s and thought, 'Why doesn't anyone see where this is leading?'"
Oliver James, psychologist, The Guardian

"I was out last night and I was with some friends I knew, including Val Kilmer, and they looked as if they were going to start crying. It's an overall landslide for Bush, which is really bizarre.
Tracey Emin, "artist", The Guardian.

"It's a black day for the world."
Harold Pinter, The Guardian yet again. Harry, darling, I think that line could do with a couple of sinister pauses.

UPDATE: The New Statesman, always on the cutting edge, launches a new readers' poll:

"THIS WEEK'S VOTE Is the US truly democratic?"

MORE: Novelist Jane Smiley goes berserk in Slate. (When was the last time you heard a grown-up use the term "big capitalists"?):

"The reason the Democrats have lost five of the last seven presidential elections is simple: A generation ago, the big capitalists, who have no morals, as we know, decided to make use of the religious right in their class war against the middle class and against the regulations that were protecting those whom they considered to be their rightful prey—workers and consumers. The architects of this strategy knew perfectly well that they were exploiting, among other unsavory qualities, a long American habit of virulent racism, but they did it anyway, and we see the outcome now—Cheney is the capitalist arm and Bush is the religious arm. They know no boundaries or rules. They are predatory and resentful, amoral, avaricious, and arrogant."

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