Picture at an Exhibition

Two non-political quotes, offered in response to trillions of requests that we post something that has nothing to do with the Texas and Ohio primaries.

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Art critic Paul Myerscough attended the showing at Christie’s in London of paintings about to be auctioned and offered this marvelous image of what was going on:

“A man leans in to inspect a detail on a Cy Twombly, looks at the price estimate ($3 to $4 million), then whips a tape measure out of his pocket.”

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Mike (a gaffer, mind you, but not in Washington) came up with this defining observation:

Michael Kinsley first said it, decades ago. In Washington, a “gaffe” is something you commit when you accidentally blurt out the truth.

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