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What's the Spanish Word for Straitjacket?

Jesse Walker | 5.18.2010 9:18 PM

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It's being reported that Woody Allen has told a Spanish newspaper that he'd like Barack Obama to "be a dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly." Things like this, presumably:

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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