Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Blogging Is The New Retyping Press Releases

From Sully.TimeMagazine.Com:

Quote for the Day
19 Jun 2006 04:51 pm

"I think South Dakota is going to be a huge, probably hard education for what I would call the hard-line pro-life forces ... A lot of people are going to be surprised at what they do when they have to go into that polling place, where no one's watching. How many of them are pro-life themselves but just won't pull the lever in favor of the law?" -- Neil Fulton, a South Dakota lawyer who describes himself as a pro-life practicing Catholic, in the New Yorker.

The magazine has a big piece on South Dakota's looming ballot decision on banning all abortions, including those incurred by [sic] rape and incest. Author Cynthia Gorney's Q and A on the piece can be read here.

From an e-mail press release from The New Yorker, Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:33 AM:

Now, with a popular vote almost guaranteed to appear on the ballot in November, Neil Fulton, a South Dakota lawyer who describes himself as a pro-life practicing Catholic, tells Gorney, "I think South Dakota is going to be a huge, probably hard education for what I would call the hard-line pro-life forces.... A lot of people are going to be surprised at what they do when they have to go into that polling place, where no one's watching. How many of them are pro-life themselves but just won't pull the lever in favor of the law?"

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The June 26, 2006, issue of The New Yorker goes on sale at newsstands beginning Monday, June 19th. Selections from the magazine, as well as additional features, including a Q&A with Cynthia Gorney, are available at www.newyorker.com.

And you thought that blogging was hard work. These things almost write themselves!

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