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  1. December 23, 2010
    The Humbug Express
    By PAUL KRUGMAN
    Hey, has anyone noticed that “A Christmas Carol” is a dangerous leftist tract?

    I mean, consider the scene, early in the book, where Ebenezer Scrooge rightly refuses to contribute to a poverty relief fund. “I’m opposed to giving people money for doing nothing,” he declares. Oh, wait. That wasn’t Scrooge. That was Newt Gingrich — last week. What Scrooge actually says is, “Are there no prisons?” But it’s pretty much the same thing.

    Anyway, instead of praising Scrooge for his principled stand against the welfare state, Charles Dickens makes him out to be some kind of bad guy. How leftist is that?

  2. I would love poured concrete in bright white. LOVE IT. Saw it once on tv and fell head over heels for it. Other than absolute black, I’ve never seen a granite that I liked.

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