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	<title>Joel Schalit &#187; Nancy Pelosi</title>
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		<title>Burning Down the House</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we first moved into the neighborhood, we rented an apartment from a former aide to House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Always eager to talk politics with me, almost every time we spoke, our ex-landlord would inevitably disclose how disappointed he was to no longer be on the local Congresswoman&#8217;s staff. Seeing this poster pasted [...]]]></description>
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<p>When we first moved into the neighborhood, we rented an apartment from a former aide to House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Always eager to talk politics with me, almost every time we spoke, our ex-landlord would inevitably disclose how disappointed he was to no longer be on the local Congresswoman&#8217;s staff.</p>
<p>Seeing this poster pasted to the ground floor of a new condo being built down the street, I couldn&#8217;t help but think of my former landlord, and wonder how he&#8217;d react to this attack on his one-time employer. Not particularly partial to this brand of agitprop myself, for once, it seemed a little more complex than usual.</p>
<p>It must be the superimposed Tow Away sign, and the 666 scrawled on Pelosi&#8217;s forehead. &#8220;Endless <a href="http://www.myjewishlearning.com/texts/Midrash/MidrashAggadah/FillingGaps.htm">midrash</a>&#8220;, as we were fond of saying in my biblical hermeneutics class in grad school. Everything is commentary.</p>
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