"you may find yourself in a beautiful house with a beautiful wife / ask yourself How'd I get here?"

Gallup liked to say that pollsters take the “pulse of democracy.” “Although you can take a nation’s pulse,” E. B. White wrote after the [1948] election, “you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.”

—from "Politics and the New Machine," by Jill Lepore

The paradox of unanimity.

Why you shouldn't pick the low-hanging fruit first. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Once in a Lifetime," Talking Heads.