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Traditionalists may abhor all this, but the food scientists are only doing what we ask them to do: respond to the needs of 280 million people all trying to eat at once and do so in the most enjoyable, affordable and nutritious way possible. It's the industry's job to fill the national plate; it's our job to decide which parts of that vast meal we want to eat. --With reporting by Dan Cray/Los Angeles and Maggie Sieger/Chicago
...strive for. Socrates railed against his hypocritical interlocutors, exposing their logical inconsistencies and urging them to strive for a “harmonious soul,” one in which ideology and actions are one. And yet, while Socrates would undoubtedly be critical of leftist hypocrites, he would abhor consistent conservatives. After all, Socrates’ greatest legacy was his ability to question, not only himself, but the norms of his society. What leftists do is question status quos, dream of something better and envision solutions; they challenge their own behaviors in hopes of changing society. Meanwhile, conservatives are content...
Geoghan was a monster of a man, but he was sentenced to nine to ten years in prison and not to death. No matter how evil some criminals might be, and however much their behavior might abhor decent people, when they are sentenced to prison they deserve a safe environment...
...decision was not, strictly speaking, a "liberal" one, another sign of a left-tilting court, which earlier in the week upheld the basic principle of affirmative action. Many conservatives of a libertarian streak abhor the idea of a government so vast and intrusive that it tells people what they can do in private...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure.” “The whole...