by Dave Weigel

Fish in a barrel, sure, but genuinely a hard test to pass. Why jam band fans and not those other beardy denizens of this hemisphere, fisherman and grad students? I think it's the ill-fed reediness -- a trait lacked by those other archetypes -- that blurs the distinctions.

Via Attackerman.

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