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...hypocrite. Yet, no liberal hypocrite need be ashamed to eat three square meals a day if he does in fact struggle in the civil war of the self. The ultimate goal, of course, is to win this war: to follow through on our ideals more often than we abandon them with our actions. Realistically, I’m not asking anyone to pawn their iPods tomorrow to help fund Head Start (which, alas, thanks to Dubya, is well on its way to extinction). Every leftist needs to find his own balance between self-gratification and altruism, but generally, the world...
...name ever conceived. Not only did the Mets have a mascot that was just a baseball with a face drawn on it, but they named the mascot Mr. Met. Everyone knew the Mets were going to stink, they knew they were going to stink, and they stank with wild abandon. Despite the losses, they ranked sixth in attendance that year. They were all ridiculous fun, the UPN of their time, and they pitched like they were pitching the premise for Homeboys in Outer Space...
Under the plan described in Furlaud’s piece, Harvard would put all class material and lectures on the internet and abandon all of its physical campus, except for the Medical and Dental schools...
There is a strange bipolarity in the Australian psyche. Compare the louche abandon of the Sydney Mardi Gras with the gruff, homophobic machismo of the outback. Contrast the shining, multicultural cities with rural outposts where shadowy, armed survivalists zealously prophesize an Indonesian invasion. And consider the country's strangely conflicted attitude to immigrants: for every legal settler that gives thanks for the unfettered hospitality of the Lucky Country?as Australia has been famously known since the 1960s?you can line up a woebegone refugee from Afghanistan, Uganda or China who rues the day he or she ever made landfall there...
...that the U.S. will flee from a head-on fight in Muslim lands, citing the examples of the withdrawals from Beirut in 1985 and Mogadishu in '94. Bin Laden is unlikely to have imagined that the 9/11 attacks would force the U.S. to immediately quit Saudi Arabia or to abandon Israel, but the jihadis operate in a time-frame far more long-term than that of their adversaries - the reason, for example, that the region of western Pakistan that borders Afghanistan is dotted with religious schools imparting the crude religious teaching that spawned the Taliban is that these were built...