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		timr on Oct 28, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Good News for People who Hate Bad News Yeah, but by switching around the words, he makes you wonder if he understood why the original album title was clever. When you first heard the Modest Mouse album name, it begged a question: what's good news for people who love bad news, anyway? Bad news? Good news? Bad news that's good news? It was a clever bit of wordplay.

byrneseyeview on Oct 28, 2008 [–]

1) It didn't beg the question.

2) Bad news, obviously. For people who like bad news, good news is bad news. You just need to avoid the assumption that the phrase "good news" means the same thing at different levels of abstraction.

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