joanna wrote:
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> by Simon Black June 9, 2006
>
> As World Cup fever grips the globe, many progressives
> will be sighing at the prospect of another sporting
> spectacle distracting the "masses" from the pressing
> issues of the day -- the classic "bread and circuses"
> argument. There is a tendency on the North American
> Left
I stopped reading at this point. Perhaps there is hidden someplace a useful article which (without further attribution) contains the phrase "there is a tendency on the left," but if so I have never seen it. And it is almost impossible for a sentence beginning "Many X. . . ." not to be both true and banal.
Carrol
P.S. If someone were to show me some writing of my own that contained this phrase, my comment would be, "Well, I can be pretty stupid at times too."