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Monday, August 31, 2009

For the Devil's Dictionary

On page 73 of Christopher Buckley's 2008 comic novel, Supreme Courtship, I came across a definition that Ambrose Bierce might have included in his Devil's Dictionary:
Pollsters, n pl. Overcompensated and usually self-regarding political functionaries who instruct leaders what to do, based on the biases of a largely uninformed electorate.

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