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Chad Orzel talks to his daughter about the process of creating art:
She went on to explain that the car had been inside the marker, but then she took the top off the marker, and put it on the paper, and the car came out. Which is pretty impressive. She’s just about to turn three, and she’s already got the Artist-as-conduit-for-something-external line of patter down. I look forward to the next time we get out the Play-Doh, when she’ll explain how she looks at a blob of it and then takes away all the bits that aren’t an elephant.
Perhaps she could give John Boehner some pointers on how to write a debt ceiling bill. I envision two alternatives:
- “The debt ceiling bill is inside your pen. Just take off the top and put it on the paper and the debt ceiling increase will come out.”
- “Get a big pile of words and then take away all the words that aren’t a debt ceiling increase. Done!”
Either one of those would be better — and more family friendly — than my advice.
