Chicken joke: Daniel Boorstin

16May09

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Daniel J. Boorstin: He didn’t need a reason. The chicken didn’t care about politics or ideology. He was one of millions of American domestic fowl heading westward to build new communities, and their inspired efforts would help to make the United States the freest, most prosperous society [...]

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Chicken joke: Hartz

28Apr09

Louis Hartz (1919-1986) was an American political scientist and author of The Liberal Tradition in America (1955). Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Hartz: Because everyone in America agreed that it had the right to do so.

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