LB: This is something a lot of people want to talk about, and I've always thought, since I was a wee preppy, that being an outsider-insider was probably to my advantage for seeing this world for what it is.
"The Paras have been sold out for many weeks and I know there will be the same passionate crowd there, so hopefully I can use that experience to my advantage for the first race or two".
I misused the situation for my own advantage," he said.
That initial spirit reflected by Congressman Issa of wanting "what's best for the country" quickly gave way to working toward "what's best for my narrow partisan advantage" -- and the effects are in evidence all around.
Every dollar I clawed, whether it was from modeling or an early gig drawing cocks for Playgirl, served to amplify my advantages.
I use it to my own advantage, for my own goals.
So having gone and played those two rounds was a big advantage for my preparation next week, but now that I'm here, I'm only thinking about this".
I grabbed a takeout lunch from Wichcraft, a sandwich shop across the street from the HuffPost offices, that has the advantage, for my purposes, of posting calorie counts for all its menu items.
There's academic support for my beliefs about the home advantage.
I hardly ever watch TV and have no interest in image quality, but I have ended up with a top-of-the-range monster, a set so lavish that the salesman, perhaps feeling faintly guilty for taking advantage of my stupidity, gave me a free length of "special" cable I don't know what to do with.
Of course I wouldn't fault my parents for taking advantage of that loophole to — in their minds — provide a better life for themselves and their children.
