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This article appeared in the January 8, 2007 edition of The Nation.

December 19, 2006

HEY, MISTER TRIANGLE MAN...

Westport, Conn.

Tom Flynn's letter about Robert Grossman's fine cartoon picturing Barack Obama playing the triangle among other celebrating Democrats ["Letters," Jan. 1] really rubbed me the wrong way. Flynn thinks that of all instruments, the triangle is "the most trivial one of all."

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About Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn has been The Nation's "Beat the Devil" columnist since 1984. He is the author or co-author of several books, including the best-selling collection of essays Corruptions of Empire (1987), and a contributor to many publications, from The New York Review of Books, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly and the Wall Street Journal to alternative publications such as In These Times and the Anderson Valley Advertiser. With Jeffrey St. Clair, he edits the newsletter and radical website CounterPunch, which have a substantial world audience. more...
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