Fat lady’s song not the final answer

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Quip of the week, no question:

A pro-abortion zealot once castigated his pro-life opponents, saying, “Don’t you people get it? You’ve lost. It’s over. The fat lady has sung.” To which one of them replied, “It is not over when the fat lady sings. It is over when the angel blows his trumpet.” – Christopher Beiting

This fellow can talk to me any time.

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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  1. It’s a common delusion that an electoral outcome resolves any and all questions, e.g., you pass a health care bill and all health care issues are resolved. The actual effects of such victories are treated as irrelevant—an obvious absurdity.

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