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Thomas Frank writes, citing former Rep.blican Rep. Tom DeLay, that "Centrism is a chump's game."

Obama's Win Was the GOP's Loss 2009

President-elect Obama can learn something from Mr. DeLay's confession: Centrism is a chump's game.

Obama Should Act Like He Won 2009

We ought to be grateful for the passing amusement he provided us, and yet how many of us can even remember the poor chump's name?

When Everyone Is Dancing With Stardom 2009

I sort of feel like the partisan stuff is a chump's game: you ignore your side's faults and highlight the other guy's faults.

Why the Obama honeymoon ended so abruptly. Ann Althouse 2009

If I try to extrapolate their motives, the best I can do would be to project why I'd make those same choices -- a chump's game, and it tells your audience more about you than your target.

Rob Stafford: Fighting Fair 2008

I think she's simply fed up with the world and the chump's game that is life and she can't contain her primal scream any longer.

31 Screams: Candace Hilligoss Arbogast 2008

That time you put a drawing pin on some chump's chair you old rebel, you! was hilarious.

Haltemprice & Howden Praguetory 2008

As well, "plagiarism by a published writer is a chump's crime, less likely to reflect a serious larcenous intent than a loose screw."

The Preternaturally Prolific Posner on Plagiarism 2007

We should go on with our lives without ever doing anything so coarse as going to court, because obviously we're all good upper-class people of means who will never end up in a situation so unsavory that we have to appeal to the law for justice and for the means to continue our lives in comfort and dignity--that's just a chump's game, and will leave us dying of consumption.'

Eight Ways in Which the BBC Miniseries Has Inspired Me Not to Read Charles Dickens' Bleak House Abigail Nussbaum 2006

We should go on with our lives without ever doing anything so coarse as going to court, because obviously we're all good upper-class people of means who will never end up in a situation so unsavory that we have to appeal to the law for justice and for the means to continue our lives in comfort and dignity--that's just a chump's game, and will leave us dying of consumption.'

Archive 2006-02-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006