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A Socialist in the Age of Triangulation

By Rick Perlstein

I had my first glimmering that Jimmy Weinstein was special the first time I met him in the flesh. It was in the mid-’90s, in New York, a time before the fad for the Atkins Diets made what he was about to do seem unusual and even wondrous. He ordered a hamburger—I was used to people his age ordering salad with… return to article

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    “He ordered a hamburger—I was used to people his age ordering salad with dressing on the side or “egg beaters” or dry toast or whatever—and he poured half a shaker of salt upon it.”

    I think it’s pretty clear what happened to poor Jimmy. But, I just hope he relished his hamburgers.  Who wants to live forever anyway.

    United States Posted by Lefty on Jul 12, 2005 at 7:11 PM
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