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October 04, 2005

Buffaloed

The Moderate Voice is featured in a piece in the Buffalo News


There are bloggers representing many different varieties of liberalism and conservatism. Most are preaching to their ideological choir - not that there's anything wrong with that. Partisanship sells, as anyone who scans the publishing world's nonfiction best-seller lists is well aware.

Chrisse Hynde once sang that "in the middle of the road you see the darndest things." That could be the motto of Joe Gandelman, a former journalist in San Diego, who heads TheModerateVoice.com, a thoughtful blog planted firmly in the political center.

"This doesn't mean that . . . I don't take a strong stand," Gandelman explained in an e-mail interview. "I do and throughout American history centrists and moderates have taken positions, often strong ones."


When was Chrisse Hynde ever in the middle of the road? I don't know. But congrats to Joe on being big in Buffalo.

Posted by rickheller at October 4, 2005 10:17 AM
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In the middle of the road you see the darndest things / Like fakirs driving ’round in jeeps through the city / Wearing big diamond rings and silk suits / Past corrugated tin shacks full up with kids / Oh man I don’t mean a hampstead nursery / When you own a big chunk of the bloody third world / The babies just come with the scenery

It's from The Pretenders' Learning to Crawl.

I don't know what it means either

Posted by: Henry Woodbury at October 4, 2005 10:52 AM

It's a lyric of the song. Listen to it and it will make sense.

Posted by: Rick DeMent at October 4, 2005 11:22 AM

Sure nuff, it's the lyric of a song. I actually used to own that album.

So the song has an attitude, but what city is she singing about and why the word fakirs?

Posted by: Henry Woodbury at October 4, 2005 01:51 PM

How about making this blog the front page of the centrist coalition, with links to the rest of the site in a sidebar.

Posted by: Susan at October 4, 2005 11:23 PM
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