Fred's list of QOTY (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Yes, clearly that was his meaning.  I don't know how literate Ventura is, but his quote is very reminiscent of something W. H. Auden once said:  "Of course, Behaviorism 'works.'  So does torture.  Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public." (A Certain World [1970]).

Fred



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Jesse will have Dick Cheney confess to the Tate murders -- that's how I
read it.

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> Or rather "Yale's" list:
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gkEXj7us_SFFTSgQcgtBA
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> I wonder who Ventura's referent for "him" was in #10.  Given what we
> know about waterboarding and Dick Cheney, I guess it could be anyone
> (male), although I'm not sure whether that was The Body's point.
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