Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience

• The unforgiving minute

  Good news! Health care reform won't prevent women from access to legal abortions*
  
  *If you happen to be Meghan McCain or one of the Bush twins.
  
  Otherwise, barring a miracle, no, not really.
  
  Minute's up. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:48pm EST
  

• Saturday tunes: Want to give a concert pianist the willies?

  Sneak up behind them and whisper, "Rachmaninoff's third piano concerto."
  
  This is the first part of the first movement, marked allegro ma non friggin' troppo." After this it gets a lot nastier.
  
  This is a 1978 performance by Vladimir Horowitz, who first recorded the Third in 1930 and" [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:00am EST