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...just for late Missouri governor Mel Carnahan but the sailors killed on the USS Cole, which took over half his first response. By the time he cited Carnahan's record in a later question on affirmative action, we were witness to a classic instance of Gore-esque coffin-riding, ? la his 1992 and 1996 convention speeches. (Whereas Bush, thankfully quickly, wished God's blessings on those whose "lives were overturned...
...habit of going out of their way to satisfy the voyeuristic impulses of a morbidly curious public. Perhaps there's simply some bureaucratic sense of duty to record the minutiae of a condemned person's last day on earth. Or perhaps our culture has evolved this ritual of the ? la carte last meal to sugarcoat what remains a grim act of violence by the state to redress a previous wrong. After all, in some countries, a condemned man's last meal is whatever the prison kitchen happens to be serving that day, and death is by firing squad rather...
...Unlike his previous online release, "Riding the Bullet," a story that readers had to pay up front to download from Simon & Schuster's web site last March, "The Plant" will appear on King's own site, cutting out the middleman altogether. Publishing houses rely on blockbusters ? la King to finance the development of up-and-coming talent, and the prospect of cultivating such writers only to see them fly the coop and reap the big bucks independently is more terrifying than volumes of killer cars and telekinetic teens...
There are exceptions, of course, to my anti-green condiment rule. Green chile sauce (? la Tabasco) is passable, I suppose, but even though it's often hotter than its red counterpart, it always seems a pale imitation. Green salsa is palatable, but generally brings to mind questions I'd rather not contemplate while eating, like: How did this color come into being? What sort of bizarre food colorings am I consuming? Could I use this salsa in a multimedia performance art project...
...would have known not to leave a paper trail of any kind ? who needs all those hard facts haunting you during your trial? The only evidence you want presented against you is the testimony of witnesses who seem inherently untrustworthy and inspire even more animosity than you do, ? la Linda Tripp. It also doesn?t hurt to be pursued by an unbearably smug independent counsel. Now that Cisneros has settled his bill and can get on with his political career, he should stick to the straight and narrow. Anyone who has such a hard time hiding the truth doesn...