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I'd give Hatch the Admiral Stockdale Prize in the debate--the prize for having no idea why you're there.
As usual, I hate both sides of the debate--the conservative, Bible-thumping morons who hate anything other than their own racist and homophobic rhetoric as well as the liberal simpletons who favor the NEA.